Re:Why isn’t someone using my software product or open sourc...
by pdonis on Monday July 30, 2018 @11:03AM
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> Which is an even worse description because 'reliable' and 'secure' are just adjectives that can mean almost anything you want them to mean
To a non-technical user, they basically mean "good", which is all the non-technical user really cares about. To a non-technical user, "prevents errors when programs try to access the wrong memory, or attempt to work with that memory in two different places at once" is just as much word salad as " prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety". They don't know what either one means or why it's a good thing.
And the first question the technical user is going to ask is "what makes it reliable and secure?"--which is what the technical description is for.
To a non-technical user, they basically mean "good", which is all the non-technical user really cares about. To a non-technical user, "prevents errors when programs try to access the wrong memory, or attempt to work with that memory in two different places at once" is just as much word salad as " prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety". They don't know what either one means or why it's a good thing.
And the first question the technical user is going to ask is "what makes it reliable and secure?"--which is what the technical description is for.