On Thursday 22 June 2006 05:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have seen some attempts from India to do creative things, but on > the whole depressingly little - certainly too little for the kind > of interest levels and keenness one sees on this and other lists. I > don't know what the issue is, but instead of moaning about Gates' > failures, we should look a little inward and evolve a way to bring > out something better for ourselves.
Depends on ur definition of "better". In the case of migrating businesses, one presumes a minimal infrastructure and tech saviness within the business (if not FIRRRST get this in place). In such cases migration is relatively very easy, and wasting time writing code for user stupidness is a thorough waste. But in the case of single user desktops no assumptions can be made. In this case it is not commecially viable to migrate to anything. Swicth from 98 to XP (with multiple user accounts and no admin access - typical setup for security) and u will have umpteen calls about any number of things. The number of calls is the same for Sarge with firefox (in addition to explaining why WMA is a problem). The time it takes to walk the user thru a problem is the same. However in linux remotely administering is a breeze. Just forget about anything remote under M$. In the 1st case GNU/ Linux shops settle down and within a few months calls are about sundry network and hardware problems (AND FIGHTING M$isms while interacting with external idiots). In the second case both systems would actually be very expensive, with Gnu/Linux having it's usual advantages (and allowing u to take home all the money). GNU/Linux is aeons ahead of M$ on almost all fronts, exceptions being corner cases of proprietory specs. If someone finds M$ "compatibility" so very important write code - which imo is like the stupid schemes we had in the past of making better bullock carts. We are better off concentrating on the future of computing - remote desktops, file systems, security, application development frameworks, voip, video streaming, wireless networks, encryption, routing etc., rather than thinking of sleeping with a diseased organistion which has no morals, vision, capability or leadership.. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
