On 1999-06-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Or Botton> said:
>>There are plenty of alternatives to being "force fed" any sort of
>>bad computing practices. You may have to use what you are told
>>to use here at your place of employment, but you don't have to do
>>that at home. If you have your own business here, you can use
>>what you want. Privately, you are certainly free to learn on
>>your own whatever you want.
>Again, this is the same thing here.
>But this doesnt help the situation, as the people believe the
>marketing that this is it. What they got is the best, and what
>they should have. So nobody is even concidering anything else.
>Those who do, get mocked at for using "inferior technology"
>or strange things.
Our best tool of influence is the Internet. Microsoft and other big market
players gained their influence without it. But now that almost anyone with
a modem and computer can gain access to the Internet -- if their views and
preferences can be archived somewhere that search engines will begin to
notice -- then simple folks like you and I can be heard. Our "voices" are
recorded in the eGroups archive of this list, for example. Keep talking
everywhere, even if it doesn't seem to get anywhere at first. I strongly
suspect that many "eyes" are watching the OS development controversies all
over the Internet... Keep talking!
>Linux have began to be noticed around here by the "general mass"
>only recently, due to articles in a few buisness magazines that
>said that "it might be the next big thing", and big international
>companies that got their local devisions to be aware of it as well.
>But besides a few encouraging articles in buisness magazines,
>there are still no advs anywhere around and I still need to explain
>to people what is "Linux". ...
At least the Linux movement is getting people to focus on an OS that has a
strong CLI foundation.
>........... "Who would use an operation system, that was
>developed by some unknown student as a part time hobby, instead of
>by a big, well trained company with many proffesionals?".
The scary thing is, if Microsoft's products -- developed over years with
what they consider to be a secure and careful process -- are so buggy and
unstable, why *would* an "unknown" student and other intelligent volunteers
come up with an OS that's so much stabler? Tell that to your friends!
Jerry
Internet Montana
-*- Don't ever give up what you can easily turn down.
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