---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roger Filomeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:50:47 +0800 Subject: Re: [plug] [OT] Microsoft in Philippine Open Source conference... To: proc ps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Where do plain computer hobbyists like me fit in? > You fit into the trained category, i self taught myself to use the computer at the age of 13. at that time, windows 3.11 is still hard to acquire.. i started with DOS and GWBASIC as a hobby ;p My fiancee's pamangkin is 7 year old and is already good at using DOS (since most of the games i installed at her pc are old legacy dos games). I was thinking if commandline usage is not so hard for a 7 yr old..then unix would be as easy ;p Thats are real example of how fast computer literacy is gained nowadays. > I have yet to see this happen. Normal non-computer-day-jobbers shifting > to nix... > Dont worry its comming up.. soon ;p > > It's more like comparing apples to santol. it like comparing processed fruits to real fruit. > Two very different lineages meeting at a point where marketability meets > hackability versus ease of use. MS and OSS has the same hackability level for me. Its just that if you're into OSS you would mostly know more of the OSS security issues than on MS. I worked on both MS and OSS and their hackability features are mostly what is used in interoperating them, oddly they work so stable.. > m$: desktop diskette bootable MSDOS with simple commands trying to > transform into a server-capable non-operating system. hard fella. keep > going... oh, and try shedding off that insecure bug-hole-prone > monoarchitecture on your way up will ya? Its still monolithic.. then using scheduling routines to achive multi-processing/multi-threaded > nix: originally a made-for-networking os humbly going down to desktop > purposes for some needed profit$ :) > hey, thats whats scaring MS ;p -- Roger P. Filomeno Systems Developer Finger Apps Inc, http://fingerapps.com Systems Developer Entertainment Gateway Group, http://egg.ph Sorry about the multi-post, clicked the wrong button ;p -- Roger P. Filomeno Systems Developer Finger Apps Inc, http://fingerapps.com Systems Developer Entertainment Gateway Group, http://egg.ph -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
