Excerpt from an interview with Michael Stutz, see http://www.linuxworld.com/story/47810.htm?DE=1
This is a scream!
"s there anything you need to run Windows for?
Yes, there is an area affecting business and home use where Linux is greatly deficient, and I see no solution coming at all. I refer to the area of e-mail viruses - they just don't make them for Linux like they do for Windows. Same with a lot of those crippling meltdowns and system errors. If you want a blue screen of death freeze-up, you pretty much have to run Windows to get it. You won't be able to run those trojan horses that steal all your passwords and copy your files out to the Internet, and you're out of luck with all those funny attachments that wreak havoc in the workplace - there isn't any Linux compatibility here at all."
Enjoy,
I like the comment. I also understand the point of view that he espouses. I happen to not wholly agree with it. He talks about getting grubby with the computer software as the best thing in the world for everybody. I remember when some folks liked to tinker with their cars, lots of boys in their late teens were constantly puttering around under the hood. Most people still just wanted the fool car to work when they needed it. I see computers as an indoor alternative to puttering about with the car. Still only a minority of the population is truly interested. (That minority includes me, so I am not an unbiased source of information.)
Just like many people from my father's generation never learned to type, even though they used typewritten material every day. I realistically can't expect most people to get excited about the extensible esoterica of the latest open source program. If I try to promote linux with that type of justification, I lose most of my audience. I manage to hand out about 4 knoppix CD's a week. (I even get to help install a few times a month.) I am not willing to shrink my numbers just because I ignore the fact that folks just want the computer to work when they need it.
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