From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:26:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:25:53 -0400 Received: from front2.mail.megapathdsl.net ([66.80.60.30]:8708 "EHLO front2.mail.megapathdsl.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:25:42 -0400 Subject: Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself. From: Miles Lane To: Daniel Phillips Cc: hps@intermeta.de, Henning "P." Schmiedehausen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <01062115481102.00374@starship> In-Reply-To: <993069751.10191.0.camel@agate> <3B312CC5.89EA2C30@fc.hp.com> <9gsc8f$kri$1@forge.intermeta.de> <01062115481102.00374@starship> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.10.99 (Preview Release) Date: 21 Jun 2001 10:32:19 -0700 Message-Id: <993144740.23874.0.camel@agate> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 21 Jun 2001 15:48:11 +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Thursday 21 June 2001 10:46, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > > My last LinuxExpo talk was also made with PP, > > This makes about as much sense as going to a cocktail party with nose glasses > on. One of the mantras that get hammered into Microsoft employees is "Eat your own dogfood." Which means that people working at Microsoft should attempt to use the company's products throughout the day in order to surface problems and give incentive to those folks to make things better. Obviously, the "EYODF" work doesn't kick in until there is some minimal level of functionality. It may be that Linux/OSS office applications simply aren't useful enough yet for anyone to stomach using them throughout the day. It would be nice to see more Linux folks eating the dogfood and making those applications better, though. For my part, I test Enlightenment, Gnome, XFree86 and Mozilla, in addition to Linux kernels. Miles