2009/12/24 Krishnakant <[email protected]> >Very easy to do. >No virus on gnu/linx "Y?" when microsoft could have done the same thing >what linux does.
This may not be the best argument. But still GNU/Linux is based on a very secure and tested UNIX architecture. 2009/12/24 V. Sasi Kumar <[email protected]> > > On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 11:40 +0530, narendra sisodiya wrote: > > > - They* are very comfortable with windows box > > except that they have to do defragmenting once in a while (think of > defragmenting a 320 GB disk!) > > > - They* feel difficulty while learning Linux > > guess they have no difficulty when a virus wipes out all their > documents ;-) > > > - Almost all software (in pirated form) for windows are available > > which may come with additional software that get installed without > their knowledge and do things without asking them too > > > - They* says, one need to jump on terminal/etc thing sometimes > > fortunately, less and less as the time goes by. > > > - Installing new software sometime make you tried from soul > > unfortunately, true. But it is so easy for those who have good access > to the Internet that a Windows user cannot even imagine how easy it is. > And no restarting the computer at the drop of a hat! > > > - in nutshell they* are unable to find a solid reason for uninstall > > Windows and install GNU/Linux over it. > > mmm, I would say they find reasons not to migrate! > > > * "They" represent many Indian who are comfortable with Windows. > > but not for long :-) > Adding my 2 paisas (thses are the arguments that I try to put forwards during my talks) 1. The freedom to share, with my neighbours, students, friends with no legal liabilities. 2. The freedom of free market, in case you need something fixed, from anyone at competitive rates. E.g. your door is broken and your agreement for purchase does not dictate you get it repaired from MS only. 3. For commercial software your never purchase the software but only a license with very limited rights. 4. In software it is never what you are promised is what you get! Many problems are hidden under the polished GUI. Besides the usual bugs (even sometimes that are known to the company but never disclosed/ fixed due to market/ delivery time pressures), and the usual NSA of USA security fixtures (recall the Windows 95 NSA encryption key issue) all you can do is trust. But in FLOSS you can get it verified as well besides the many eye effect. Bugs get fixed much more quickly in FLOSS due to many hands effect. 5. And how wikipedia changed the scenario of commercial encyclopaedias same is going to happen sooner or later for software. -- Cheers Ajay Pal Singh Atwal _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
