On Sunday 16 March 2003 16:39, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:44:51PM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > The "solution" that they decided on (not yet implemented) is to keep > > > the aging machines and purchase one new Dell machine with > > > WinXP/OfficeXP. > > > > Good arguments, and likely to go nowhere so long as the people you're > > dealing with have no GNU/Linux exposure. > > Actually, it still works. Before General Motors, people only drove > Fords. People hadn't ever been exposed to a GM vehicle before. > Obviously people found there were advantages to GM vehicles over > Fords, or everybody would be still be driving Fords to this day. > Claiming that operating systems are any different from any other kind > of decision is stupidity of the highest orer and should actively be > discouraged.
Agreed, but unfortunately there's all this spurious 'compatible' crap. Nobody was ever scared off buying a GM car because it wasn't 'Ford-compatible'. First it was 'IBM compatible' then it was 'DOS compatible' and now it's 'Windows compatible', quite regardless of the fact that Mickey$oft's various flavours of Windoze aren't even compatible with each other. I get sick of having to explain to M$ users who don't know any better that, yes, I can display JPG's in Linux and no, I don't need M$ Word, there are perfectly good word processors, possibly even better ones, available for other platforms, and yes, of course I can read websites in Linux, the Net was *built* on Unix machines..... cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
