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When License Fees Are Too High, Users Do Things By Hand.
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When license fees are too high,
users do things by hand.
When the management is too intrusive,
users lose their spirit.
Hack for the user's benefit.
Trust them; leave them alone.
Related:
To shake people up, to wake them from their sleep, while knowing you are committing a crime and that it would be a thousand times better to leave them alone
ince when they wake, too, you have nothing to offer them... -- E.M. Ciora...
When the Guru administers, the users are hardly aware that he exists.
Next best is a sysop who is loved. Next, one who is feared....
virus n. [from the obvious analogy with biological viruse
via SF] A cracker program that searches out other programs and `infects' them by embedding a copy of itself in them, so that they become Trojan horses....
When users see one GUI as beautiful, other user interfaces become ugly.
When users see some programs as winners, other programs become lossage....
WYSIAYG /wiz'ee-ayg/ adj. Describes a user interface under which "What You See Is All You Ge
an unhappy variant of WYSIWYG. Visual, `point-and-shoot'-style interfaces tend to have easy initial learning curves, but also to lack depth...
When you overesteem great hackers, more users become cretins.
When you develop encryption, more users become crackers....
user to computer ratio too high.
Wordstar users - Ctrl-KQ to you, too.
WYSIAYG: /wiz'ee-ayg/ adj. Describes a user interface under which "What You See Is *All* You Ge
an unhappy variant of {WYSIWYG}. Visual, `point-and-shoot'-style interfaces tend to have easy initial learning curves, but also to lack depth...