From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 5610 invoked from network); 1 Jul 1998 19:40:14 -0000 Received: from blinksoft.com (HELO mud.blinksoft.com) (208.219.30.2) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Jul 1998 19:40:14 -0000 Received: from localhost (whistler@localhost) by mud.blinksoft.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA30639 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 13:39:22 -0600 Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 13:39:21 -0600 (MDT) From: Whistler To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: RealPlayer, RAP, and XVFB In-Reply-To: <199807011508.JAA01709@zygote.ivory.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: While I don't like the attitude of the people I am about to side with I do have to say. Linux is already competing strongly with MicroJunk. Over 7 million people use it more software venders than ever are now supporting versions of their programs for linux that used to only be 95, NT look at The company that used to be Borland. They are now called Inprise and now have a version of Interbase out for redhat linux look at the company that makes clipper they have a version called Flagship that beats anything they have on a NT or 95 machine. Look at Word Perfect they have thrown their total support behind Linux and many more are doing so. The Titanic's graphics was done in Linux so don't spout that if we ever want Linux to compete because it is competing and it in the long run does have a chance to become an equal because it is a far supearior free operating system that not only can be used by the civilian world but it has full Posex compliance and now the Government is using it. Something that Freebsd can't do. I also have a busness consulting for companies in the area and I will tell you this Linux is replacing Novel servers and Hp servers and even NT servers all through out my state. Even at my college they couldn't get the Sun box to run so what did they do they made the Sun box a web server and for classes they use Linux. They are trying to use NT for some of the programming classes but they are getting tired of the constant crashes so theya re even looking at using Linux for all their networking needs. Well I have rambled enough it just ticks me off when people seem to think Linux isn't competing and will never compete if we don't dumb it down so that these window clickers can use it. I say let them keep their graphical window clicking stuff at home the power and the money for people who want to work in computers is working on server aplications for business. I know for a fact with my Linux knowledge I can get a job paying mega money. Can windows 95 users say the same? Ken /whsitelr www.valhalla.com www.blinksoft.com telnet valhala.com 4242 On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Brian L. Sellden wrote: > Chris: > > You said: > > While I don't totally disagree with this attitude, I would like to remind > > you that, if we want linux to even begin to compete with M$, we need to > > provide some mechanism of support. Telling someone to "rtfm" in so many > > words is basically saying that, if you're not an expert then we don't want > > you. Any customer service rep, telling this to a customer, would have been > > fired on the spot. > > This attitude drives me crazy. If you're trying to run some > application, you have a *responsibility* to read the documentation. > Just because a customer service rep doesn't call > someone an idiot for not reading the docs, doesn't mean he's > not thinking it. > > And you don't have to be an expert to read a file called 'README'. > But if you read enough of them, you may *become* an expert. > > Regards, > > Brian. > -- > --------------- > Brian L. Sellden - brian@henge.com, brians@usa.net > User of Emacspeak 8.0, making Unix talk. > http://www.henge.com/~brian > What on earth would a man do with himself > if something did not stand in his way? > -- H.G. Wells > > --- > Send your message for blinux-list to blinux-list@redhat.com > Blinux software archive at ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux > Blinux web page at http://leb.net/blinux > To unsubscribe send mail to blinux-list-request@redhat.com > with subject line: unsubscribe >