On April 28, 2005 11:00 am, Kin C Wong wrote: > At 03:17 AM 4/28/2005 -0600, you wrote: > >On April 28, 2005 01:18, Gustin Johnson wrote: > > > In short I would be in support of this presentation as long as the > > > focus was interoperability, and had some relevance to Linux. > > > >I have to agree with this statement and I believe this is the aim of > >Barnaby's presentation though he is free to correct me if I'm wrong... > > Total agreement here. For those of us that need to interface with the > outside world, we will come across different o/s whether we like to or > not.
Yes, but look at MS's track record with making things interoperable. You could learn much more from Google. > What people choose will be based on wide variety of factors, but as a > IT professional or even an IT enthusiast, we ought to be interested in the > inter-relationships. The playing field is rarely level and technical > superiority does not always win -- understanding the circumstance and the > game will likely give you an edge in moulding the future. I strongly > believe in keeping your friends close and your enemies even closer. > > If the presentation is mere propaganda, well that is something I don't > really need. Personally, I would treat it much like the tele-marketers > that interrupt my evening (you don't want to go there). > > Do you really see MS allowing a presentation showing any sort of interoperability, without pushing their product? Besides we have network servers [samba] and mail servers [Scalix, to name only one of many] which drop in and replace the vast majority of MS counterparts. There is a replacement for almost everything server wise, and the desktop is getting there. Can't wait for KDE 3.4... I really think it'd be a FUD-fest. Nick _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
