Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 02 Oct 1998 23:16:08 +0100 (WEST) | From | "Manuel J. Galan" <> | Subject | RE: Let's Hear it for Linux: ? Yawn |
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On 02-Oct-98 Sid Boyce wrote: > http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=36147d2c0 refers: > > Amazingly I couldn't raise a Yawn,a hearty laugh was all I could muster. > I know it would be foolish to have bet on little David against the mighty > Goliath and most bets would "safely go on Goliath", very reasonable, we'd all > say. > To liken Linux to OS/2 and Mac, you are saying the little guy always loses. > Most of us came from DOS/WINDOWS, so we know the difference between an > operating > system that delivers constantly and one that does only on your lucky day. The > Blue Screen of Death and such happy occurrences are behind us now, but we > still > have vivid memories of those traumatic occasions, sometimes we see them quite > often and they make for a good laugh. > I know Corporate buyers will always go with the crowd, but they have a nasty > habit of demanding security and reliability, also their patience is not > endless, > so when cracks appear in the dam, a flood is heralded. > Personal users are by and large quite computer illiterate, so they will more > often sacrifice solidity for whatever comes second, but even there, people > are > asking questions and looking for something better. > > Another laugh, seeing figures of IE against Netscape, most people I know > prefer > Netscape, but they all have PC's with Windows and IE, hell, they can't buy > anything else, it's there whether they want it or not, the dealers having > been > offered a deal they COULDN'T refuse.. > Microsoft's sales are as large as they are simply because every PC shipped > is > forced to have it installed, but it doesn't mean there are an equivalent > number > of happy users. > Linux will do well, even an article such as yours which offers such cogent > arguments as to why it should be shunned, generates further interest from > others > who would probably only have vaguely heard the word Linux mentioned. Every > negative article has had precisely that effect, so keep them coming. > I would wager that your article around the same date in 3 years time will > probably have the same general thread running through it, but significantly > changed in substance, I'm hugely looking forward to it --- SMILE ---. > How about a regular LINUX column here ????? > Regards > -- > ... Sid Boyce...Amdahl(Europe)...44-121 422 0375 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Any opinions expressed above are mine and do not necessarily represent > the opinions or policies of Amdahl Corporation. > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ On 02-Oct-98 Sid Boyce wrote: > http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=36147d2c0 refers: > > Amazingly I couldn't raise a Yawn,a hearty laugh was all I could muster. > I know it would be foolish to have bet on little David against the mighty > Goliath and most bets would "safely go on Goliath", very reasonable, we'd all > say. > To liken Linux to OS/2 and Mac, you are saying the little guy always loses. > Most of us came from DOS/WINDOWS, so we know the difference between an > operating > system that delivers constantly and one that does only on your lucky day. The > Blue Screen of Death and such happy occurrences are behind us now, but we > still > have vivid memories of those traumatic occasions, sometimes we see them quite > often and they make for a good laugh. > I know Corporate buyers will always go with the crowd, but they have a nasty > habit of demanding security and reliability, also their patience is not > endless, > so when cracks appear in the dam, a flood is heralded. > Personal users are by and large quite computer illiterate, so they will more > often sacrifice solidity for whatever comes second, but even there, people > are > asking questions and looking for something better. > > Another laugh, seeing figures of IE against Netscape, most people I know > prefer > Netscape, but they all have PC's with Windows and IE, hell, they can't buy > anything else, it's there whether they want it or not, the dealers having > been > offered a deal they COULDN'T refuse.. > Microsoft's sales are as large as they are simply because every PC shipped > is > forced to have it installed, but it doesn't mean there are an equivalent > number > of happy users. > Linux will do well, even an article such as yours which offers such cogent > arguments as to why it should be shunned, generates further interest from > others > who would probably only have vaguely heard the word Linux mentioned. Every > negative article has had precisely that effect, so keep them coming. > I would wager that your article around the same date in 3 years time will > probably have the same general thread running through it, but significantly > changed in substance, I'm hugely looking forward to it --- SMILE ---. > How about a regular LINUX column here ????? > Regards > -- > ... Sid Boyce...Amdahl(Europe)...44-121 422 0375 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Any opinions expressed above are mine and do not necessarily represent > the opinions or policies of Amdahl Corporation. > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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I was going to send it to him (richardb@...) but why should I give him a clue?
Let him dream about ladies and dragons while he sleeps his MickeySoft siesta in peace.
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