At 01:57 PM 20/01/02 +1100, you wrote: >This one time, at band camp, Brian Robson wrote: >>http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/12/death.html >>http://www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpatents.html > >Uh, you do know that these sites are satirical news sites, and not actual >fact? >
Oh, bother, blast. I was sure M$ would have been able to patent the numbers one and zero. After all, I have the Australian patent on four-legged office wheeled-chairs, that's why they all have five legs nowadays. And in reply to the newbie, Suse is great for beginners, in that the installation does a pretty good job on your hardware. The problem we are all saddled with - "Linux won't be any good on the desktop until it looks and works just like windows". Any office that used Linux on all machines for a year would have forgotten what it was what they were missing. And much of the config stuff in Linux is painless compared with windows. Any company that takes the Linux plunge will set up an implementation team and a training team. The trainers will make the difference - to walk people thru the new desktop and the new wordprocessor. But in-house apps will work just the same - banks and insurance companies could convert most machines to Linux and the staff would hardly notice. Brian -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
