And since you mentioned that you disagree with my opinion regarding learning, that is great, it was a challenging assumption that people do not want to learn, they do, and they will. I do not use Windows for anything in my working or home environment, and have not used a windows for a bit longer than a decade. As for using Linux on non production environment, well Linux is free software, one may use it for any purpose whatsoever. Many, and that number is high, use linux in Live production settings, including banks, heavy industry, mining, space industry, holywood, healthcare, military and i can really go on. It mostly depends on how much of the information is hidden from the decision maker, to help them arrive at the desired decision , and use windows for their production environment, essentially suffering the consequences of their decision for a decade to come. These types of decision cost a lot of money, and require a great amount of investment, both human and monetary. To expect the same people who voted Microsoft to eat their words and recommend Linux after 6 or 7 years of deciding to use Windows, and essentially spending a huge amount of resources in the process is not realistic, and this is the market that this type of an article is written for. To provide some sort of a justification to use proprietary, closed source and non free software. Eventually it will become obvious one way or another, that Free and open source software has more benefits and is more advance and more productive than Closed source proprietary software that inevitably comes with a nice vendor lock-in. I use Free software, i write my software using free software, and whenever possible, i make what i write available as free software. It is a gratifying feeling. Anyone who does not choose freedome, automatically chooses slavery and servitude. Slavery can be very comfortable and convenient but it is not gratifying and does not lead to greatness ...
Phew. Cheers Szemir On February 9, 2008 20:02, Graham Monk wrote: > My view is that Linux is more than capable of doing a lot more, > if it is allowed to. Why do you think MS is fighting so hard and dirty over > the OOXML and ODF thing? Linux is not used where it can't read > proprietary formats, that's not the fault of Linux. People who don't > know ask "well if it can't read xxxx it's no good to me" They have > generally too short an attention span to listen to the arguments > about formats. > > Niche OS? Shawn says it well, Linux runs on more types of > computers than any other OS ever. > > graham > > On Feb 9, 2008 1:29 PM, Doug Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree it's probably not that well written an article. The part that > > caught my attention was that linux wants to be "a niche operating system > > that has a following and harbors little appeal to more than 98 percent > > of the world's computer users." > > > > I've watched linux grow over the years, but my experience is that it's > > primarily making headway as a server replacement for non-prod work. > > Sure there are examples out there that have gone open-source, but they > > aren't the norm. I'm a little disappointed that linux hasn't made > > better headway over the years as a viable replacement for windows. Just > > out of curiousity does anyone work in a primarily opensource environment > > here in Calgary? Actually using linux as their only workstation at work? > > > > I'm not trying to bash linux. I think it is a great solution, but I'm > > willing to put the effort in to make it work because I support the > > ideal. Most people are inherently lazy and I disagree with Bogi in that > > most people don't want to learn something new. Most people are only > > willing to learn more about what they already know because it validates > > their initial investment of effort. Granted this is my personal > > experience, but I see lots of examples where people aren't happy to try > > the next version of outlook or (shudder) vista because it makes them > > uncomfortable. (vista isn't a great example here, because it _is_ > > frought with problems) > > > > So when I read this article I thought, maybe that's it, maybe linux just > > wants to be a niche O/S. And I just think it's better than that. I > > think there needs to be a change for it to become really popular. What > > change, I really don't know. The opensource model is an experiment that > > has been surprisingly successful. Does the process need to evolve for > > it to become the primary desktop of choice? I think so, and I look > > forward to some changes. > > > > My two cents and probably not worth much more than that. :) > > > > Cheers, > > > > Doug > > > > Shawn wrote: > > > Some interesting ideas in there. But overall I find it's just another > > > propaganda mouthpiece article bashing Linux and Open source in general. > > > It's kinda subtle but really, the article doesn't have anything > > > useful for me other than complaining the some of Linus's comments don't > > > seem to add up. But, If you were to put those comments into the > > > context they were originally expressed, rather than forcing them into > > > the context of the premise of this article, they would problem make > > > more sense. > > > > > > As for who speaks for "Linux", well there's only one opinion that > > > matters to me regarding what Linux is or should be. Mine. If it does > > > the job for me and meets my criteria, I don't really care what Linus, > > > BillyG, or anyone else thinks about it. It's nice that there are a > > > good number of folks out there who happen to have similar needs to my > > > own though.. :) > > > > > > My thoughts. > > > > > > Shawn > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
