--- Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Often, the existence of an alternative is inadequate. Many people, > believe it or not, live in MS-Office all day long. If the documents > their co-workers produce don't import 100% correctly into whatever > alternative they use, then it's no alternative at all.
Agreed. > That's a pretty narrow view of business computing. Some people use > computers for CAD design. Some people use them for publishing. Some > people use them for art. Some people use them for hardware > development. Some people use them for process automation. Etc. etc. > the list goes on and on. The bottom line is, if you need some > application NOW that already exists on Windows, but not on Linux, > you're gonna pick Windows. There are many such cases. Well, we were really discussing computer use at home. But I agree with you on this. I can remember a workplace on the West coast that was all Mac (back in the SE/30 days) but switched entirely to PCs because more vendors were going the way of the PC, particularly with software packages we needed to upgrade. > Nope, but if they can't look at the schedule that their manager has > made for them in Outlook/Exchange, and their co-workers have trouble > importing their documents properly into MS-Office apps, then it > doesn't matter if they can do it another way. If they can't work with > the rest of their team, they're totally screwed. The evils of the Microsoft way... > > "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by > > those who have not got it" -George Bernard Shaw > > I like that quote a lot; but sometimes, cynicism is only that. There was a really good Hagar The Horrible comic strip a long time ago. His daughter asks Hagar why the world is full of old cynics. "Because cynics live longer," was his response. -Mike- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss