Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux
On Friday 28 March 2003 11:10, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> >And it will probably have an industry standard power
> >supply/motherboard connector (unlike the Dell).
> >
> >See, e.g.
> >
> >http://www.upgradingandrepairingpcs.com/articles/upgrade3_01_01.asp
>
> Why I am positively aghast!!! How dare you even suggest that a major
> hardware (or even software) even consider something as esoteric as an
> industry standard. [As I reminisce about my days own a (very proprietary)
> Emerson 286 PC.] I mean, how will they keep people locked in to their
> product. You can't possibly be suggesting that they try and produce a
> superior product or provide superior service. I can clearly see that you
> have been a part of this "so-called" free software movement for too long.
>
> 8-)
>
> -Roberto
>
> [Note: in case the tone came out too serious, this is actually a joke!]
>
As a perennial budget-limited fixer/upgrader of not-quite-new PC's, I just
don't want to know these brand-name bleeding-edge nobody-else's-bits-fit 'top
name' brands. Dell, Compaq, HP, IBM.... you can keep 'em. Give me a
Joe's Computer Shop special assembled from off-the-shelf bits any day.
<grin>
cr
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