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Back over some of the latest posts. "the ozone client and the required dependencies"

JEFFERY, the poster was commenting on Haystack, and asking seperate question about Ozone in Windows, both of which have absolutely nothing to do with THE.

It seems you've quoted statements from reading a whole bunch of comments, without ever trying to understand a point of view that is contrary to your own -- only looking for fragments of text that can be mangled together to support your view, without regard to their intended meaning or context.

Questions you should ask:

What problem is Raskin trying to solve?
What empirical/scientific evidence does he use to support the design of his methods?
What are the external limitations in which his designs have to work within?
How well does THE address these issues? (this is where you can make criticism of THE)

There have been some good and bad posts by other people. The bad posts simply take Raskin as a fool, and state the most obvious and ill considered criticism. Have you considered Raskin has also thought about these issues and has already provided answers on his website? I have yet to see a criticism in relation to his solutions as stated on the website.

Bonus Question:
Why does Raskin allow the introduction keyboard short-cuts when it is so obvious it would be difficult for people to remember which short-cut does what function? Or as someone else put it:

Couldn't imagine my 63 year old mother trying to figure out which keystroke to fart with, when point and click is SSOO EEAASSYY. It only takes about 3 seconds to double-click an icon that says "FART HERE"

Happy research folks!