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From: Peter Bailey [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 1998 7:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: onto the arguement of win/linux--re: Druppy
Anyway, my point is that the major shortcoming of Linux is the
fact that large vendors don't want to risk losing money by making products
for it. This is not a problem with the operating system, it's a problem
with the general public and their doodie-in-a-pretty-box-will-sell
mentality.
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Actually, IMHO I think you may be missing something. LINUX Especially is
still looked upon as the "college kids" operating system. I attempted to
install gcc/g++ on a solaris and aix server and my boss about shit. The
fact of the matter is if it's UNIX and it doesn't cost $2000 for the os, or
doesn't ship on a server with a different archetcture than intel, it is in
no way shape or form going to be used by major corporations for anything
more than a webserver/router/firewall. At least, that's what i've seen in
the 5 or 6 different places i've directly worked for and in the 50 some odd
companies i've consulted for.
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I would also just state, for the fun of it, that
pico/notepad/edlin/edit or whatever are mainly what I use to write papers.
It's all good to make your paper look all silly and hope that if the font
is pretty your paper will be better, but if a person is honestly reading
it, it doesn't matter. I would much rather get a complement on a paper,
than how nice it looked.
****************************************** Semi Off topic (in comment to
wordprocessing with a text editor not in comment to
***************************************** windows vs linux.)
I sincerely hope you aren't still in college...I honestly hope you've got
about 15 to 20 years experience in the business field you are in, because
that last statement is completely 180 degrees from how the real world
feals. I've worked closely for a time in hiering people, and I gaurentee
if your resume doesn't look decent, it's either on teh bottom of the pile
or in the wastebasket, depending on howmany resume's i've got to go
through. If i've got 200 applicants for 2 positions (not uncommon) I
gaurentee i'm going to use anything I can to weed people out. If you make
it through the first cut, your resume will definately not make it through
the second if you're using a text based word processor or a text editor to
type it up...it simply looks unprofessional. Many studies have been done
by many people that claim a 10 to 30% increase on a paper that looks nice
as opposed to one that is done on a text processor or typed.
If you could get by with a text editor (like wordpad) why don't people type
their resume's anymore?
Douglas Wagner :)
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