Why not Linux?

[Rick Tomaschuk]

While you are certainly entitled to your opinion, I am as equally
entitled to mine. I'm certain passengers on the Titanic were adamant
about the choices they have made but this doesn't mean I have to like,
honor, respect or even entertain the judgment of business leaders who
are beyond reasoning with. I call 'em as I see 'em. Tyrants prevail when
common people do nothing. Microsoft is an illegal monopoly according the
the USDOJ. The company is impacting on our simplest day to day business
operations and the economy in a negative way. Some obviously benefit but
many do not. 
RickT



On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 23:09 -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Rick Tomaschuk wrote:
> >> I just think it is more appropriate on a Linux list to discuss the 
> >> goodness of our chosen OS than to be forever putting down the "other 
> >> guy." It makes us all look bad in the eyes of potential converts. Hasn't 
> >> anyone noticed all the misguided UNSUBSCRIBERS lately?
> >>     
> 
> > Sorry if I've offended some. I believe the only way to deal with  some of the walking, breathing, human garbage out there is to expose their methods. For the faint of heart we have:
> > http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Advocacy.html
> >   
> 
> The general approach in the world of FOSS is to make the best possible 
> software possible, regardless of the progress of any particular brand X. 
> I heartily advise folks here to read interviews with Linus Torvalds to 
> see how irrelevant Microsoft can be to the development process.
> 
> Having said that, those of us who try to encourage the use of FOSS can't 
> help but be confronted by folks who have built their careers on using 
> brand x and aren't about to switch any time soon. For some time now, the 
> biggest obstacles to the adoption of FOSS (not just Linux but open 
> source applications) have included inertia and fear of the unknown.
> 
> Rick, like many long-timers here, understands this. Talking about the 
> entrenched leader is unavoidable when dealing with advocacy/marketing, 
> as we constantly encounter small minds who support the status quo quite 
> deliberately to protect their own careers or accidentally because they 
> don't know any better (or have been led astray by others with vested 
> interests against change).
> 
> I wouldn't characterize the people we're dealing with as garbage, or as 
> asleep as another message suggested. To do so is to needlessly insult, 
> it enforces the stereotype of FOSS advocates as elitists, AND it 
> suggests a grave error in underestimating the skill or drive of those 
> whose minds we're trying to change.
> 
> To assert that people reject FOSS out of ignorance (or stupidity) is a 
> big mistake; to use that assumption as a foundation for strategy is a 
> guarantee of failure.
> 
> - Evan
> 
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