Amazingly dumb remark about Linux

[Alex Snow]

I don't know any companies that use all macks.  Macks really suck so I don't
blame them.  The school district I'm in used to use all pcs, runing winblows
nt and an nt server.  Mack gave them a deal, and now we're using about half
and half.  The mack side is down about 75% of the time, the pcs are down
about 15 percent.  If they switched to linux, both sides could use the same
server, and downtime would be decreased.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita at home.ro>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 1:59 AM
Subject: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux


> Do you really think 40% of the companies use Linux in USA?
> I don't think so. And anyway, I don't think you  believe that 40% of USA
> companies use only Linux and no Windows.
> 1. Most of them use Linux only as a server for the internet because it is
> better in this field.
> 2. I believe there  are a lot of companies that use only Windows and don't
> have a private web or FTP or mail server.
>
> How many companies do you think that don't use Windows at all?
>
> You will probably tell me that Linux is in fact  used by more companies
that
> those who use Windows.
>
> If 40% of the companies use Linux, another part use OS2, another part use
> Macintosh, etc, how many Windows users are there?
>
> Microsoft will lose from its market share?
> I hope you're right.
>
>
> Teddy,
> orasnita at home.ro
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cecil H. Whitley" <cwhitley at ec.rr.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 4:21 AM
> Subject: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux
>
>
> > Hi Teddy,
> > I must disagree with you about companies not using Linux.  I saw stats
> > earlier today that up to 40% of the companies in the U.S. are now using
> > Linux for some applications.  MicroSoft is expected to lose 18% of it's
> > market share over the next two years to Star Office and it's free
> > counterpart OpenOffice.
> >
> > Now, just because Linux isn't friendly to blind users for it's GUI
doesn't
> > mean that there is no GUI.  There are games for Linux btw, they're the
> same
> > games that there are for windows, because they are the windows games!
> Check
> > out wine-x by transgaming, not that it will do you any good.  Remember,
> you
> > being blind are a minority.  Wine is not up to the glorious 1.0 yet, but
> > there are commercial products based on it that are doing okay for
> > themselves.  You may also wish to check out lindows.com.  Is Linux a
> > minority?  Yes!  Are you a minority Linux user?  Yes!  That's two
strikes
> > against you, but do not generalize that to the product itself.  You
can't
> > speak for the sighted world because unfortunately you're no longer a
part
> of
> > it.  Does any of this help you?  No, but that does not prevent it from
> being
> > the truth.
> >
> > Linux now has some serious backing, IBM, HP, Sun, a large customer base
is
> > being installed in the governments of various countries including
France,
> > Germany, Brazil, China and the United States and Canada.  IBM has picked
> up
> > several major corporate customers for Linux over the past two weeks.
They
> > include Roiters, Sherwin Williams and I can't remember the third one to
> save
> > my life....  They also sold some serious computing power to the Air
Force
> > this week, or at least they announced it this week.  Linux is a viable
> > product and is probably here to stay whether or not the GUI is ever made
> > accessable.  In fact, the NSA has it's own secure version of Linux for
use
> > within security sensative areas.
> > Regards,
> > Cecil
> >
> >
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