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Comment #167

Comment 167 for bug 1

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Allen Graham (allenggraham) wrote on 2006-07-13: Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

#167

Halo Sopo !!!
23 years ago I was using a PC in my business, along with a colour monitor,
and I was not an IT specialist. Even then there was a choice between DOS and
Unix. But today everyone needs to access a computer and the 'net. Everyone
needs to understand the computer they are driving. At this moment the only
foolproof, desktop , system that I know of, within my limited scope is
Ubuntu Linux . Windows, any flavour. is scary. Viruses, spyware, and just
plain lousy code plague MS Windows. Bill Gates is the wealthiest man in
the world, does he give a damn about lousy code ? Linux does work.
Perhaps the only aspect of computer use is that we should trust is Linux.
Flawed as it may be Linux s the only answer on the horizon .
Allen

On 7/13/06, sopo <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> MARCO:
> you're forgetting that 15 years ago computers were only used by IT
> specialists. nowdays a computer is like a car, or a washing machine -
> everybody NEEDS to use it to get something done, they don't need to LIKE it
> or understand it.
> you can't ask a secretary who just needs to answer e-mails and type
> documents to understand why her box won't hybernate. it's the IT
> specialist's job to make it hybernate when she pushes that particular
> button.
> and sadly in linux this and many other things don't "just work" yet the
> way our little secretary would expect it.
> sure, you don't need to be a specialist to understand these things, but
> you have to at least like them and be interested in them. but if you're
> neither they just nned to work.
> and it can't be considered ignorance if someone isn't interested in
> computers. we can't all have the same hobbies, can we?
> you don't expect everyone to understand how an internal combustion engine
> works, or what the effects of a short shift gearbox are, but everyone
> expects a car to work as advertised.
>
> PS: you can substitute "secretary" for any other job you like, because
> everybody is more or less relying on a computer to get something done
>
> PS2: this is NOT a pro-MS statement, i'm just saying that linux still
> needs alot of work to be done on the "works out of the box" factor
>
> --
> Microsoft has a majority market share
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/1
>

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Halo Sopo !!!
23 years ago I was using a PC in my business, along with a colour monitor,
and I was not an IT specialist. Even then there was a choice between DOS and
Unix.  But today everyone needs to access a computer and the 'net.  Everyone
needs to understand the computer they are driving. At this moment the only
foolproof, desktop , system that I know of, within my limited scope is
Ubuntu Linux .  Windows, any flavour. is scary. Viruses, spyware, and just
plain lousy code  plague MS Windows.  Bill Gates is the wealthiest man in
the world, does he give a damn about lousy code ?     Linux does work.
Perhaps the only  aspect  of computer use is that we should trust is Linux.
Flawed as it may be Linux s the only answer on the horizon .
Allen

On 7/13/06, sopo <sopo_dan@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> MARCO:
> you're forgetting that 15 years ago computers were only used by IT
> specialists. nowdays a computer is like a car, or a washing machine -
> everybody NEEDS to use it to get something done, they don't need to LIKE it
> or understand it.
> you can't ask a secretary who just needs to answer e-mails and type
> documents to understand why her box won't hybernate. it's the IT
> specialist's job to make it hybernate when she pushes that particular
> button.
> and sadly in linux this and many other things don't "just work" yet the
> way our little secretary would expect it.
> sure, you don't need to be a specialist to understand these things, but
> you have to at least like them and be interested in them. but if you're
> neither they just nned to work.
> and it can't be considered ignorance if someone isn't interested in
> computers. we can't all have the same hobbies, can we?
> you don't expect everyone to understand how an internal combustion engine
> works, or what the effects of a short shift gearbox are, but everyone
> expects a car to work as advertised.
>
> PS: you can substitute "secretary" for any other job you like, because
> everybody is more or less relying on a computer to get something done
>
> PS2: this is NOT a pro-MS statement, i'm just saying that linux still
> needs alot of work to be done on the "works out of the box" factor
>
> --
> Microsoft has a majority market share
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/1
>

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