On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 2:49 PM, kenneth gonsalves <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 14:38 +0530, Gautam Chaudhary wrote: > > he sounds like an unabashed MS weenie. > > > > > > Because you did not try to find out who he is and why he agreed with > > my point. That's the whole point. You concluded things on the basis of > > your own thoughts without doing any research. > > actually I know who he is - and on occasion he has given me solutions to > problems - but that does not excuse him for agreeing to silly > statements. > > > > > > Around 3 years back my thoughts for linux were similar to yours. > > I do not think you have understood my thoughts for foss (foss is not > restricted to linux btw) > > > But with time i realised linux is not the best for "everyone". > > right now in the Gcin mentors list there is a hot debate as more than > 500 students have been caught cheating and 80% of them are Indians - one > guy has even suggested banning *all* indian students from Gcin as well > as Gsoc. Foss is not the best for them - better they stick to windows. > > > Yes, most of us can use it well, but not "all". > > who said anything else? But not for the reasons that you have given. > > > I mentioned linux as i was comparing alternatives with windows in the discussion. If you want me to talk specifically about FOSS, then i would like to pick "firefox". My first response to Narendra's post was: *"As long as FOSS alternatives are* *not as feature rich and easier to use as MS products, average user won't shift even if they agree with your MS bashing. Its not lack of knowledge of FOSS which is helping MS, but * *non-availability of equally good, ready to use and feature rich alternatives."* * * Why do people prefer Firefox over internet explorer? Is it just because it is free and open source? No, instead because it offers more features than IE, is more secure and reliable, is faster and bla bla. So the deciding factor is features and performance, and not just being FOSS. So many of the firefox users won't even know what's FOSS. Same is the case with VLC vs windows media player. People would consider the FOSS factor "more" when alternatives are at least as good as the proprietary options. Both Chromium and Chrome browsers are based on the Chrome project and have almost identical features. But the chrome has more google integration into it, which many don't like as they don't want them to track their activities. So, as they have an alternative with almost identical features, they can use chromium browser. I was not writing against FOSS in my posts, but instead was highlighting the fact that they need more improvements. I'm a FOSS supporter and try to use them as much as i can. But i do use proprietary software if FOSS alternatives are not good enough for my requirement. Regards, Gautam Chaudhary http://gautamchaudhary.com -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
