Op woensdag 30 oktober 2002 06:19, schreef Chris Carlen:
I often try to advocate Linux to folks, on both philosophical and technical grounds. Unfortunately, I don't know what I will say if anybody tries to install Linux, and has a lot of problems. I may have to eat my shoe. But I usually don't hide the fact that it can take more effort to tweak Linux into shape than Windows.
Think about telling them that the document format is open. This means that the documents they write _now_ will still be readable after a long time (50-100 years) from now. Will you be having your MS editor after 100 years to read their docs, probably not. However, the open formats (mostly xml) can be read by emacs/vi/joe etc. They are not formatted, _but_ still readable. If you like you can write the document with kword save the doc and edit it later on with vi.... With other words _you_ are in control of the doc and not the vendor of delivering the proprietary formatted docs. Besides that it seems that if you use fast saving e.g in MS word that not all information is removed. So if you removed the sentences "the customer XYZ is stupid" and have it fast saved the information is still in the saved document, but not visible on the screen. Now the customer is a linux guy and he reads the document with the command "strings" he will be seeing the line: "the customer XYZ is stupid"..... Linux doc formats are cleaner in that respect. -- Richard