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Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux



Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:50:43 +1200
From: cr <cr@orcon.net.nz>

[BIG snip]
>Well, to take the analogy back to Linux - vs - Windoze -   all word 
>processors work pretty much the same.   All spreadsheets work pretty much the 
>same.   The difference between M$Word  and AbiWord, or  Excel and Gnumeric, 
>is no greater than than the difference between Win95 and W2K versions of 
>M$Word / Excel.   Just like hopping out of an Escort into a Vauxhall.

>But Windoze users won't believe that.   They imagine anything but the M$ 
>crudware they're accustomed to will be 'too difficult'.   


Agreed. . . .  And that brings us back to the Subject line:
Convincing etc.  We can't convince 'em; we can only persuade.

Wendell Cochran
West Seattle



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