On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 01:37:55PM -0700, sheine wrote: > Tommi Komulainen wrote: > > > Just a thought, you weren't planning to do anything productive with, or > > did you? If you did, guess you'd better reconsider: [I was referring to StarOffice there] I guess I should've added more smileys there... The whole point was that nobody ever reads the license agreements. Please, do feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. :) You must agree that prohibiting productive work in the license agreement is somewhat amusing. I know, it's beta, but still... > This message caused me to reconsider the several years that I have fooled > around with linux. Maybe it is just a computer game, not a serious tool. It > doesn't crash like Windows, but no matter how well things are going, a new > problem always arises. In the absence of good documentation, the best way to > solve a problem is to go to this web site. But a tool is something that > works when you need it and doesn't continuously call attention to itself. Interesting response to my half-assed attempt to remind that one might want to read the license agreement every now and then. Now, would you be surprised if I told you that the same clause prohibiting productive work is also present in the Windows version license agreement? Does that make you wonder if Windows is just a computer game, not a serious tool? And what about Solaris? I believe that one should use the tool that gets the job done. However there usually is more than one thing to do so you have compromise. You can do one job very well in one platform but some other job in the same platform gives you massive headaches. And yet both jobs has to be done. One has to find a suitable balance between productivity and headaches. For me and my programmer's nature Linux is clearly the winner (of those that I've tried so far.) For you it might be something else. Hammer is *not* the only tool there is in the toolbox. -- Tommi Komulainen Tommi.Komulainen@iki.fi GPG 1024D/68388EE6 6FD6 DD79 EB38 BF6F 3533 09C0 04A8 9871 6838 8EE6
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