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Re: [SLE] Linux isn't ready yet
- From: "Michael Satterwhite" <satterwh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 09:25:18 -0600
- Message-id: <01fa01c2d5cf$9cdc6030$6501a8c0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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From: "Paul Benjamin" <paulben@xxxxxxx>
To: "SuSE English" <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [SLE] Linux isn't ready yet
>It may come as a shock to you but no one says that Linux is ready for the
>desktop. I don't think Linux is ready for my Aunt either.
Actually, if you look at comp.os.linux.advocacy, there are a lot of people
saying it is. I'm not sure I take people on *ANY* advocacy group too
seriously, however. They're fun to read, but not too realistic.
>I am willing to put up with the problems because I am sick of Microsoft and
>every other box software "sellers" calling me a thief until I prove
>otherwise. I may be a freeloader who hasn't given anything back but no one
>is going to fine me because I lost my SuSE 8.1 box.
That's exactly the reason that I'm using Linux now, too. I don't think that
I should have to explain to Microsoft why I decided to reload my hard drive.
>Check in every year or so because I have seen Linux improve over the last
>three years and I am sure that even your middle age non-computer type would
>be able to use it in another three years. Then I would have never allowed
>not-computer types to use Windows 3.1 ten years ago, but they still did
some
>how. ;-)
Actually, remembering Windows 3.1, I'm surprised it survived as a platform.
Never underestimate the power of marketing, I guess.
From: "Paul Benjamin" <paulben@xxxxxxx>
To: "SuSE English" <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [SLE] Linux isn't ready yet
>It may come as a shock to you but no one says that Linux is ready for the
>desktop. I don't think Linux is ready for my Aunt either.
Actually, if you look at comp.os.linux.advocacy, there are a lot of people
saying it is. I'm not sure I take people on *ANY* advocacy group too
seriously, however. They're fun to read, but not too realistic.
>I am willing to put up with the problems because I am sick of Microsoft and
>every other box software "sellers" calling me a thief until I prove
>otherwise. I may be a freeloader who hasn't given anything back but no one
>is going to fine me because I lost my SuSE 8.1 box.
That's exactly the reason that I'm using Linux now, too. I don't think that
I should have to explain to Microsoft why I decided to reload my hard drive.
>Check in every year or so because I have seen Linux improve over the last
>three years and I am sure that even your middle age non-computer type would
>be able to use it in another three years. Then I would have never allowed
>not-computer types to use Windows 3.1 ten years ago, but they still did
some
>how. ;-)
Actually, remembering Windows 3.1, I'm surprised it survived as a platform.
Never underestimate the power of marketing, I guess.
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