-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Juan Alberto Cirez wrote: > Gustin Johnson wrote: >> The amount of >> crapware, adware, spyware, virii, and badly written software that is out >> there is mind boggling. > Gustin, > You're missing the point: Most people do not know or care about the > impact of "...crapware, adware, spyware, virii, and badly written > software..." they only want to know they can finish the spead sheet > thier boss is creaming about on time and go home. Windows works like
They do not get this work done if they are sitting a BSOD (these days windows reboots automatically instead of showing you the BSOD, but it is still there. Often Windows is doing a reboot dance but it is really a BSOD. Nothing intuitive about that. > crap, it's slow and otherwise should not be feed to starving pigs...but > it works (badly; but it works) and it is intuitive. Linux works in all No, you missed my point. Do *not* confuse familiarity with ease of use. > but one aspect: It is not immediately as in intuitive as Windows and it > is not as well supported by hardware vendors as Windows. That will be > its undoing. > No, politics will be its undoing. It actually does not matter if GNU/Linux gains market share anymore. It only matters if it gains contributers. Right now there are enough people contributing that it will take political policy to kill it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpWcloACgkQwRXgH3rKGfO0GgCfTdm+govgF19RIEfVbyzvszsJ PxoAn109smDtkLv2aDXA9ccnvP9XLryg =2T+a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
