Subject: Re: intel gige
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/14/2002 03:36:55
>> WHY when i buy a device i cannot know how to use them.  IMHO it's
>> breaking of basic consumer law.
> Of course you know how to use them.  They all come with user manuals,
> after all.

That attitude - that the consumer doesn't need to know anything but
some miniscule fraction of the interface to the thing, and that the
jokes that pass for "user manuals" these days are enough to "know how
to use [the devices]" - is the very problem in question.

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