Re: Dangerous "feature?"

> But we as programmers know more than they do. That makes it our
> responsibility to ensure they win.
>

This is the second or third time you have said something like this on the 
list.

This attitude really scares me.  This is Microsoft's philosophy, not the open 
source philosophy.  Programs should not be developed with the idea that users 
don't know what they are doing and so we need to protect them from themselves.  
The open source ideal is to design programs that give users lots of options -- 
even the option to shoot themselves in the foot -- but provide reasonable 
default behavior that will work 97% of the time.

In this case, I think being able to disable the "do you really want to do 
this?" dialog is perfectly appropriate and reasonable behavior.  However, I do 
agree that enabling, by default, some kind of automatic backup or version 
control system, would be a reasonable choice.  The user could always disable 
these measures, too, and then delete all their files, but we WANT the user to 
be able to do this.  I can imagine more than one set of circumstances in which 
doing so would be desirable.  

--Robert

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