On Sep 9, 2004, at 11:44 AM, Julia Thompson wrote:
I've noticed that a lot of people who are pro open-source can be fanatical about it.
Well, you can find that anywhere -- religion becoming politics, for instance; that is, someone believing he's got something so wonderful that he simply has to jam it down his neighbor's throat.
I could get into a discussion about what seems to work open-source and what doesn't, if anyone else wanted to get into it. There are good things about open-source, but it's not a panacea.
Definitely not. There isn't an open-source OS that is genuinely user friendly, for instance. No 'nix or 'nix derivative is a pleasant thing to have to administer, but they're pretty powerful when they work, pretty stable, and don't tend to be viral breeding tanks.
The thing about Windows is that there are a number of apps available only on that platform, and if you're going to be using one of those (AutoCAD, frex), that basically dictates your OS.
Also quite true. From my POV Mac makes more sense, but that's because I'm doing book design and publishing on it, not CAD.
I'm probably going to be getting a new computer before the end of the year, and I'm wondering how many of the apps I use (and if all of the apps I use frequently) are available for some other OS that can be put on a Dell machine (because that's where I think it'll be coming from).
Depends what you do. What do you do?
-- WthmO
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