Warning - Read if you have the time to spare.
<long post>
What needs to be understood is that the job has to be done.
Microsoft or Linux is besides the point.
If you don't you may not have a job left.
That is for Ostriches to understand.
Realistic scenario
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Just because the boss lets you have a machine on
which you can have Linux to check out doesnt mean you send
.emacs and .vim files to 120 people who use Microsoft Office.
If you do you're the .... take your pick of adjective.
This in essence in soemthing you need to understand and
invariably dont. You will keep on generating worthless e-mail and
trying to prove you are smart and wasting time of people who wish to
be helped and to help others get ahead in the use of Linux.
In aline' "To solve real-life problems using Linux."
If the whole world uses 2-ply toilet paper and you use
recycled environment-frienldy stuff doesnt mean they'll use your choice.
They like soft stuff. They'll use soft stuff and they'll think you are
brainless and you like wise and no one the wiser.
Ever heard of being able to understand viewpoints and accept them.
Takes (1) brains and (2) age. And usually means maturity.
And guess how much you have ?? The other people will tell you.
Why don't you try to help people solve problems.
</long post>
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
>
> --- Pankaj Kaushal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Are you giving Red Hat features or M$ Specs please
> > don't
> > use formats like doc and msword In public at least
> > this part of the world as most of us will not be
> > able
> > to reverse engineer it. use .emacs or .vim instead.
>
> Why not plain text or rtf? By saying .emacs or .vim
> you are again doing the same evil.
>
> >
> > (I have the s/w to convert your .doc to readable
> > text, but the other guy might not have it or I may
> > not make an effort to change it to readable text
> > "which I did not make" and you will certainly miss
> > a big part of the audience. The third guy however
>
> By refusing to share your software which helps people
> of different platforms to communicate, you are doing
> just that - cutting off large part of YOUR audience -
> the M$ world. If you keep to your own world, you will
> start gaining the frog-in-a-well mindset, which I
> suspect some of you folks have already started
> gaining. ;-)
>
> > and respect why? we are here. we are not here just
> > to help
> > people configure there X configurations and
> > commercial
> > guy's getting there apache and samba configurations
> > done.
>
> That unfortunately is one of the major reasons we are
> here. I disagree with helping commercial COMPANIES.
> But commercial guys?? Most of the time it's some poor
> folk from these companies whose a** is on the line.
> Pankaj, one day even you will be working. Won't that
> make you a commercial guy then??
>
> >
> > we are here to do our best to get people to know
> > what's
> > wrong with proprietary S/W and replacing it with
> > free(dom)
> > software as much as possible.
>
> I prefer help first, push your own philosophy later.
>
> >
> > and the war is not only limited to replace bad S/W
> > with good one's. but its also about omitting the
> > .doc
> > .ra .gif .asf and all the proprietary formats.
> >
>
> Are you trying to build a Gnu/Linux-only world?? I
> would rather not.
>
> I would rather people using Linux coz' it's definitly
> better, than bamboozle their conscience into using
> one.
>
> From just-a-person-with-a-different-angle,
> Your own dhoodhwalaa ;-)
> - Sandip
>
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