> Last night I sat in a restaurant with a man who runs a small electronics > factory here in Plovdiv; > at present all of his computers run on Windows. He wants to change over to > Linux because > various people have told him it will be cheaper. > > He uses extremely specialist software written for Windows to program his > electronic "thingies" > (that was where both my electronics and my Bulgarian failed me). He has > heard about WINE. > > I told him that the answer was multi-facetted and depended on all sorts of > variables which I was > completely unable to answer until I had tried runnung all these special > programs with WINE; seeing if > running under WINE they would connect with the thingies, and so on, and so > on . . . . > > And I told him that, ultimately the 'aggro' of such a change over might just > be more trouble than it is worth. > > He was shocked and surprised at what I told him as somebody told him that I > was a real Luddite > as far as Windows was concerned. > > What I told him, however anti-Windows I may be (quite a lot), was my honest, > informed opinion; > wihtout more that a modicum of my personal prejudices.
Good story Richmond. Back in the early days of home computers, we had lots of alternatives: Sinclair, BBC, Atari, Commodore, Apple etc etc. I had a temporary job selling at a trade show in that era and my advice was the same as it is now: "If you have a piece of software that you need to run, then get the computer that runs that software, regardless of platform." People need to remember that computers are a tool, not a religion. Cheers, Sarah _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
