Software Quality rant (was Re: Large email account)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Earl R Shannon wrote:
> I don't want to sound like I'm defending poorly written software. BUT,
> If it doesn't look pretty people won't want to use it. And if no one is
> going to use your software, why write it?

What do you want to use to store your email?  Cyrus or MS Exchange?

And don't tell me end-user software is not as important as the server side.
For the users, this certainly isn't true.  Ask someone whose master thesis
was just trashed by their beautiful word processor and O.S.

If the UI is total crap, of course it needs to be fixed.  I am *not* saying
anything like "UIs are useless" or some nonsense.  But fix the core
functionality *first*.

But I am repeating myself.  I have ranted enough and I feel happier now ;-)

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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