Hello,

Perhaps we are all blind men looking at the same elephant here!

I once wrote
(http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/blog/floss/soft_duties-2001-03-12-12-22.html)

        Unfortunately, as long there will be people willing to "take
        the easy way", there will also be a MicroSoft that leads them
        to a beautifully decorated creative dead-end.

On Mon, 09 Jun 2008, Sarad AV wrote:
> You are a tech. user. A fair experiment would be to pick a sample
> of non-tech users and introduce them to both linux and windows and
> see what they prefer to use.

and

> I think we are talking two different things here. i am referring
> to the non-tech community using computers, ...
<snipped>
> you seem to be referring to the tech community.

Please think about the following questions in your own context.

 Were _you_ ever a "non-tech" user? If so, how and when did you become
 a "tech" user? What would you need to do to become a "non-tech" user
 again?

I believe that the answer to these questions will explain my point of
view.

As Albus Dumbledore (echoing the wisdom of the ancients[1]) says to Harry
Potter:

        It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far
        more than our abilities.

Regards,

Kapil.

[1] I like the characters and settings of the books though I dislike the
    litiginous personality of the author.
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