--- Jeff Kinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:13:20PM -0800, Michael Costolo wrote: > > --- Jeff Kinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes it is, but its not Quicken. My mom, and several other people won't > > > consider changing, so its got to be Quicken on Linux. > > > > Nothing personal, but I honestly don't understand that mentality. > > I think you understand it. You just don't like it or agree with it and > I can understand why. (and if you "really really" don't understand it, > well.... that is a problem.)
I understand resistance to change. I don't understand the mentality that someone will only operate within artificially narrow conditions. It is as if someone would refuse to drive if they couldn't drive a particular brand of car. That I don't understand. > > Then perhaps they really have no reason to change operating systems. > > Oh - I thought we were trying to convince people to want to change, Never mind. > :-) I rather thought we were presenting the concept of options. The reality that you *can* use a computer to do real work (and play) on a computer that isn't running Windows. And do it well, no less. I'm not interested in convincing people that they want to change. > > This function over form idea was a point I tried to make earlier. > > No, you missed. In this case the FORM being identical as well as the > function is what made this situation easy for the public windows-based > users. As long as they percieved no difference at the GUI or app level > between what they were used to, they had no problems with the system > > Most of them thought they were using Microsoft Word! (It was > OpenOffice). That only reinforces my point. That they were *not* using Word did not prevent them from doing the work they intended to do. That they were fooled is largely irrelevant. > > Well, I'm assuming the user *wants* to run Linux and *wants* to be able to do > the > > same work, not necessarily just run the same programs. > > Wow. I almost never run into people (Excepting technophiles) who want > to run Linux. Are you sure you don't need to check your assumptions? Perhaps. But like I said before, I'm not trying to convince people they need change. That sounds too much like work. -Mike- ===== "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it" -George Bernard Shaw __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
