Re: [tlug] Japan Times Article on Linux

["Martin Arballo" <martinarballo@example.com>]

I can see very good comments in this page,
with a good amount of knowledge display,
but, I didn't find yet any WHY NOT DO THAT...............TOGETHER
I mean, in that specific case, 
Why not to start working on a project to solve the problems REGULAR PEOPLE face with LINUX?
Hey, I know many people did it, but how many times regular people worked in those projects side by side with LINUX developers.
I am waiting for the day I will start one of those projects, but I can not do it alone, cause I am one of the REGULAR PEOPLE,
and I am afraid that by the time I become an expert, I will already forgot what did I want to change from the system!!!
Martin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Gushee" <mgushee@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [tlug] Japan Times Article on Linux


On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 11:49:26AM +0900, A. Sajjad Zaidi wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 05:39:51PM +0200, Martin Baehr wrote:
> > 
> > well, the point is that this is simply the situation that linux has to
> > face. in order to beat windows, linux must not only be as easy to
> > install as windows, it must be even easier.
> > 
> > windows has an advantage that can not be argued away, to even out that
> > in the long run it must be easier to install linux, than it is to
> > upgrade windows.

If current trends continue, that will probably become impossible in a
strictly technical sense, for anyone who has a reasonable Internet
connection. Microsoft seems to want to do away with shrink-wrapped
software packages and do everything over the wire, and their Windows
Update technology makes it all but effortless to install something new.
I don't see how a replacement OS could ever hope to compete with that
level of convenience.

On the other hand, Microsoft is getting increasingly fascistic and
greedy with their licensing policies. I don't know how that plays in
Japan, but over on this side of the pond a lot of people are very uneasy
about that ... though I imagine only a few will dare to leave the herd.

> And I am sure that it is easier. Off course, its easy for me to say
> it, but I say that from the point of view of long time Windows users.

Well, when you get right down to it, a user-friendly system is whatever
you're used to. Case in point: my Father continued to use WordPerfect
5.1 for DOS up until a year or two ago. He's by no means a technophobe,
and he had tried more "modern" products, but it always meant a new
interface to learn and no compelling advantages. Of course, he's a
professor, so he can get away with being "out of step." But if your life
doesn't revolve around technology, why not stick with what you know.

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