Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 01 Jul 2001 15:24:29 -0400 | From | Adam Schrotenboer <> | Subject | Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU! |
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Hua Zhong wrote:
>-> From Kurt Maxwell Weber <kmw@rowsw.com> : > >>You can choose to work somewhere else, or choose to enter a different field. >> > >There are a lot of people who don't know how to use Linux/Unix. Windows is >much easier for them and has more applications. They practically have no >other choice if they have to use a computer in their jobs (maybe they can >Macintosh). > >One of my dreams is someday Linux can really be a great desktop operating >system, but you know that's not yet real now. > Yes, and I am not arguing that all my customers should go Linux. But the way that MS goes marketing their crappy products, bundling w/ Windblows is atrocious. I have gotten very sick and tired of every one thinking that because Word is MS product, it must be perfect, or if not perfect, and least the best possible. I am also sick of being expected to use MS products, or lose out on school assignments and business b/c M$ was an asshole and doesn't support Wordperfect, Star Office, etc (yes, I know that star office can read word)
Because of their predatory practices I am stuck w/ their mediocre products. I must support their products; I am expected to get a MCSE so I can get a job (at the moment I work for my father, so I don't need one).
If I want to set up a Linux server (my father and I are working on making this a solution for a few of our larger customers) I still have to deal with interoperatbility with a system that breaks all the rules (standards) makes their own, etc.
Yes, I do do the work, b/c it makes me money (not enough, b/c I can't get enuff hours, but the hourly pay is terrific), doesn't mean that I have a choice of whom I support. Yes, I could just drop the field. But that would mean giving up, and that doesn't sound like a choice either. So I work within the system to change it. Meanwhile, if this was something else, I could probably sue for emotional damage or something else (tongue in cheek). If I was imprisoned wrongly, I could get compensation right(don't ansewer this, it's rhetorical).
But don't just tell me to butt out, b/c I can't change it. I refuse to believe that.
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