"Granny - Just edit your Registry!" Re: hoax or bad taste joke by Redhat's CEO?

[Steve Withers]

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 18:05, Justin L Croonenberghs wrote:
> Why not? He's being honest. Can you honestly imagine your grandma picking
> up a computer and then finding out she needs to edit her /etc/inittab?
> 
> :-)

If she wants Internet browsing and e-mail, there would be no need for
her to do that. 

Would you tell yer Grandma all she needs to do is run 'regedit' and make
some changes to her registry keys? 

Or how do you explain she needs to patch new XP system to keep the worm
viruses away....but she can't connect to the Internet to download the
patch becasue she will be infected? 

This is just two situations that are more of a pain than most things I
do on Linux.  

There are many more. 

-- 
Steve Withers <swithers at mmp.org.nz>