On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> to dismiss Linux as 'not user friendly' just because they were forced
> to use it for some project and it didn't quite behave like windows.
or may be because they dont get to play half-life , CS and all on
GNU/Linux!
> being a techie) wouldn't convince them -- they'd say that I'm fibbing
> and hold on to their very dear impression they had made (or heard
> about -- shocker isn't it?) years ago.
>
> But at the same time, people at work were surprised last year when I
> made some art for our UI using some hippy software called GIMP -- they
> thought Photoshop was the only thing that could do such beautiful
> things. People had started to adopt it since it's also apparently a
> bit easier to use compared to Photoshop until our client decided to
> not authorize its use for reasons best known to them. Our Analysts
> find OOo Draw very useful to draw charts and design specs, but nobody
> wants to use Writer or Calc since they'll have to give up the comfort
> zone of Word and Excel.
>
> The only libre software that seems to have truly global acceptance is
> Mozilla Firefox. I guess marketing matters more than anything else.
*It sure does, always.*
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km
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