Re: Honest does not pay here ...

[Steven Barnhart <sbarn03@softhome.net>]

On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 19:07, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> Fine for us developers, but 99.5% of users wouldn't recognise a c 
> function if it jumped up and bit them on the ass. If it doesn't say 
> "linux supported" on the box, they won't buy it. Google? Source Forge? 
> ./configure? WTFIT?. Where is their freedom?
> 
> Until the manufacturers start providing good quality supported drivers 
> for their hardware, binary or source, linux will stay exactly where it 
> is now; a server room tool and a hobbyists playground.
> 
> I for one think thats a real shame

You are just being silly. Any half-decent person (including my grandma,
seriously!) can set up distributions such as Mandrake and now maybe even
Red Hat. The problem I see, especially here (but atleast normal people
won't subscribe :P), is that a lot of Linux users hate proprietary
software and bla bla you get what I was going to say there. Anyways its
quite easy to set up a system and you no longer have to be a hobbyiest.
you did read IDC's predictions didn't you? Linux has a chance of
becoming #2 in the next year or so. Beats me what this had to do w/the
topic either..geez.

-- 
Steven
sbarn03@softhome.net
GnuPG Fingerprint: 9357 F403 B0A1 E18D 86D5  2230 BB92 6D64 D516 0A94