On Saturday 07 October 2006 13:13, krishnakant Mane wrote: > firstly, this concept of free software is not just over inthu and > fun. secondly gnu/linux may have originated from the labs where
Concept of Free Software is awesome. Propagate the concept without shouting anti-Windoze slogans all the time. People give too much importance to Windoze while in reality its not worth giving so much importance. > "hackers " work. I don't know how does one compare that developers > from the non- free software school of thought are any time better > than your so called hackers. > why is always hacking shown some thing stupid and time pass? Who said that? May be people who dont understand what "hacking" is in reality. But why do you want to worry about such people any way? > and by the way this operating system has multiple brands. so it has > huge commertial support. > and 90% of desktops still run windows? How long have you been using computers? > may be I don't know, ceneor people like anurag, or jtd may comment on > that. but one thing I know is that 75 persent of corporate servers > run non-windows systems. and unfortunately many don't declare their Another thing, non-window != Linux. When it comes to scalability and heavy processing SUN Solaris is the defacto OS in the industry. > usage of gnu/linux may be more testimonials are required. > no matter what, firstly if the tone of some people is "afterall it is > a project of bunch of hackers", it sounds as if they are always one > step behind the reality. if so then why has this "bunch of hackers" > developed a virus free operating system? Linux is _not_ virus *free*. Like any other piece of software out there Linux too has its own weaknesses, vulnerabilities, exploits and once in a while they do get exploited. > I only have one request. Please don't spread fear, uncertainty and > doubt amongst those who intend to shift to gnu/linux. showing what > is bad in windows is rather a service to them. I often here a You need not show them how BAD windows is to get them shift to Linux. You just need to show them how GOOD Linux is. > from using gnu/linux. today I agree that microsoft is slightly > better in hardware support, again ceneors like jtd can send police to Its better not to get into the hardware support of both OSes. Reason why Windows has better hardware support is because its more widely used and hardware vendors cant survive without pleasing the people @ Redmond. > some times people don't understand what is bad and good, so is it not > a good thing to tell them what they are loosing by not using > gnu/linux? Yes, its a good thing to tell them what they're losing out on but please cut down on the Windows bashing. Windows bashers DONT have any credibility. Trust me. -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
