In article <ck6a45llhalrttpjkt9h0sbotfg3u5an57@4ax.com>, John Navas
<spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote:

> >> >other people have different needs and one person's drek is another
> >> >person's gem.
> >>
> >> Probably at least 80% dreck by any standard.
> >
> >so what? its not like 80% of windows or mac apps aren't drek either,
>
> Most of the Windows and Mac dreck has been relegated to direct,
> shareware or the dustbin by now. Check the number of software SKUs
> carried by major retailers.

plenty of what's available at major retailers is also drek and plenty
that's available via shareware is not. different apps for different
needs.

> >maybe even higher and 20% non-drek is still 11,000 apps, some of which
> >are unavailable on any other platform.
>
> I didn't say all the rest were not dreck. I said "AT LEAST 80%" were
> dreck. [emphasis added] Read more carefully, and stop twisting what
> I say.

it doesn't matter what the percentage is. if people find useful apps,
that's all that matters. whether you think those apps are drek is
completely irrelevant.