Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux
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
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