Re: Knoppix is Not Debian
On Feb 9, 2004, at 5:29 PM, Sam Halliday wrote:
now please can we stop this thread and get back to debian related
issues?
This from the person who took the time to answer the original poster's
anti-Microsoft comments with non-Linux/non-Debian advocacy on a Linux
list???
You started it, sir. I just offered up some Linux CAD options, not
being a Holier-than-Thou CAD software expert.
While you may be very intelligent regarding CAD software, you sure seem
willing to attack people like myself who are only pointing out
alternatives that ARE Linux-related on a Linux mailing list, and then
claiming that *I* took the conversation off-topic? Wow. Quite bold of
you.
Consider where you're posting. The majority of Debian users here could
really care less what CAD software you use or what your problems are in
finding a Linux vendor so you can run it on a stable, high-quality OS.
The few that might be able to help by coding up a replacement for you
haven't exactly been hired yet to do so by your employer who's stuck
with a proprietary closed vendor situation, so obviously that's what
they choose for their business. In other words, where the original
poster was talking about choices, your organization has already made
their choice.
You're appear to be out to prove you're right at all costs -- so you
attacked me, which is pretty silly considering that I don't really
care. I'm just a guy who posted some CAD links to a really stupid
thread.
But... consider for a moment that the vast majority of the world
doesn't need nor use CAD software at all, and then re-read the original
poster's message within that context.
If only 0.1% of the world's computer users use CAD software, then he's
99.9% correct -- adjust the percentages accordingly to real world
numbers.
Therefore your example is very poor, and his point is still quite
valid. If the majority of computer users typically use e-mail MTA's,
network file systems, mail servers, webservers, and not CAD software
daily, Linux/Unix excels at those items and is generally regarded as
much higher quality software -- then their choice of inferior Microsoft
products is wrong.
Most just don't know they're even making a choice.
So you're 100% accurate that there are some people need Windows to run
certain software, but in the bigger picture of things, you're 100%
wrong that the original poster was not right.
He may have neglected to point out that a very small population of the
overall computer user-base out there might have a special need, but
generally his comment was right. People running Windows for daily
generic applications -- are making a mistaken choice.
Nice try. The reality is that Microsoft's software is buggy,
security-hole-ridden, crap. Anyone forced to use it by a third-party
software vendor (AutoCAD) should be very very unhappy with that vendor,
and should be voicing it to that vendor -- not Microsoft. Those of us
who realize Microsoft software is of poor-quality have already told
Microsoft it's not worth purchasing -- by not purchasing it.
Maybe you can get AutoCAD to buy your copies of Windows to run their
software on, if they require it for their software to work? I doubt
it, but hey... it's worth a try over the bargaining table when you say
you'd like to run their software on a good quality OS!
Nate Duehr, nate@natetech.com
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