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| DATE | 2003-05-27 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Big Business & World Perceptions - Linux on the Des ktop
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> 'You are a dandy, and a dabler. You do nothing by conviction. You
> treat the world like a stream of junk on the other end of your remote,
> try this zap to that, lets see what's going on over here.
I think the word 'you' here is meant in the proverbial generic way.
:)
Anyway, nobody has even measurable end points for the usability of a desktop,
let alone can justify a statment that Free Software isn't ready for the
desktop. I honestly get very fustrated every time I have to work with
a non-free desktop. EVERYTHING is a PIA from finding a program to working
with my mail, to writing a letter. I haven't seen a decent commerical
vendor desktop since Deskmate from Tandy in 1988.
SuSe gave me the first desktop I was happy with in a 12 year gap with SuSe 5.2
It's a big jump from being a lieing scumbag from pushing free software and
making the hard sell, and not conceding anything. I would be happy to be a
lieing scum if it ment that I could unshackle a business from slaveware
and make money for the morally superior choice of using Free Software on the
desktop.
Forgetting MS for a minute, the computer software industry has been a
self-fulfilling market from its birth. The general rule of mondern
economics is that businesses, since they no longer become profitable
through supplying needs, must CREATE their markets by marketing a need
to the public and filling it.
Nowhere is this more clearly the case than with computer software. We
create our markets and fill them, and manipulate all kinds of expectations
with the client. When someone say that a desktop is not 'ready' for the enter-
prise, this is simply a reflection of how well a propietary vendor has
manipulated the perceptions of the public, and how poorly we've done in
marketing our desktops.
Are our desktops ready for business.
ABSOLUTELY, in every conceivable way.
Is Windows a viable business solution... NO. No business should trust their
enterprise to a proprietary system. This has been one of the big drains on the
economy and a large reason for the colapse of the IT jobs market. Windows
in your business threatens the viability of your enterprise because it is
designed from the ground up to enslave your business.
And this is true of all propietary systems. They all leave you vernable
to extortion. None of them are sensible for use on the desktop. They
shouldn't be used to flush the toilet.
If everyone had Free Software on the desktops, all the business applications
and other needs would rapidly follow, more quickly and in a less costly
way than the current expectations of clients.
Ruben
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