Why not Linux?

[Colin McGregor]

--- Rick Tomaschuk <rickl-ZACYGPecefkm4kRHVhTciCwD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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

For a few people their 1912 trip on the RMS Titanic
was a pleasant experience, seriously. The Titanic made
it's maiden voyage from Southampton, England, with
stops at Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland,
then from there the ship went into the Atlantic ocean
for a date with an iceberg. There were a handful of
people who only travelled from Southampton to
Cherbourg or Queenston, and for them the RMS Titanic
was good (this also explains why there are some nice
surviving pictures taken during the Titanic's maiden
voyage, all by a man who got off at Queenstown). 

Same story with Microsoft products, yes, there are
some VERY few cases where Microsoft software is the
best solution, but ... You don't want to use it one
the big bad ocean (aka: the Internet), and ... and
.... 

Colin McGregor

> 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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