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[Michael Shigorin <mike@osdn.org.ua>]

	Здравствуйте.
Зацепило (http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/):

We prefer plain dealings and straightforward transactions in
America. If you go to Egypt and, say, take a taxi somewhere, you
become a part of the taxi driver's life; he refuses to take your
money because it would demean your friendship, he follows you
around town, and weeps hot tears when you get in some other guy's
taxi. You end up meeting his kids at some point and have to
devote all sorts of ingenuity to finding some way to compensate
him without insulting his honor. It is exhausing. Sometimes you
just want a simple Manhattan-style taxi ride.

But in order to have an American-style setup, where you can just
go out and hail a taxi and be on your way, there must exist a
whole hidden apparatus of medallions, inspectors, commissions,
and so forth -- which is fine as long as taxis are cheap and you
can always get one. When the system fails to work in some way, it
is mysterious and infuriating and turns otherwise reasonable
people into conspiracy theorists. But when the Egyptian system
breaks down, it breaks down transparently. You can't get a taxi,
but your driver's nephew will show up, on foot, to explain the
problem and apologize.

Microsoft and Apple do things the Manhattan way, with vast
complexity hidden behind a wall of interface. Linux does things
the Egypt way, with vast complexity strewn about all over the
landscape.

-- Neal Stephenson, "In the Beginning... Was the Command Line"

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