Linux and Why Nobody Seems To Care.........

http://www.applematters.com/article/...eems-to-care1/

" The general consensus seems to be that Mac users are the sort who want
the best in quality, no expenses spared; Windows users are those who're
looking for the best bang for their buck (generally in the short term); and
Linux users are the ones who want everything for free, particularly
software."

" Some Linux users are easily dazzled by superfluous and completely useless
effects (wobbly windows, blatant overuse of transparency, etc.) and assume
that it must be better than Mac OS X because it's so cosmetically made-up
and then there are others who only need the Terminal and can keep typing on
it whole day long."

" The problem with the Linux community is that, like any community, it has
members with widely varying interests and preferences and the open source
developers are developing hundreds of distributions to try and cater to
every single whim and fancy of these members. The result is a cornucopia of
free software, software that has been developed at the expense of the hard
work and time of some of the most skilled developers on the planet, and yet
does not have a single product that is complete in and of itself and is
generating any profit at all."

" There is no way whatsoever that thousands of developers sitting in front
of their computers in different corners of the world and spending only
their non-working hours trying to develop something that they know isn't
going to make them any money, are ever going to come up with anything good
enough to seriously challenge software from companies like Microsoft and
Apple. There is just no chance at all."

" Linux has been around for more than a decade now and it's nowhere near
challenging either Mac OS X or Windows. The vast majority of hardware and
software makers around the world are still shipping products that are
incompatible with Linux."

" There's no guarantee that the camera you bought today and is compatible
with your Ubuntu installation will work with Fedora Core too should you
change your mind in a few days, as is a common practice among the Linux
enthusiasts."

" All of this and more are reasons enough to ignore Linux. Linux users are
never quite sure which one is the best distribution around. They have
debates in their own community with twenty different users vouching for
twenty different variations. They constantly have to keep figuring out
workarounds to make all their software and hardware work together. They
can't just go out and buy a new accessory, assured in the knowledge that it
will work. They are afraid to upgrade, lest things go wrong."

And so forth......

Obviously this guy has had experience with LinSUX because his article is
right on the money....

--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/

Moshe. Goldfarb wrote:
> http://www.applematters.com/article/...eems-to-care1/
>
> " The general consensus seems to be that Mac users are the sort who want
> the best in quality, no expenses spared; Windows users are those who're
> looking for the best bang for their buck (generally in the short term); and
> Linux users are the ones who want everything for free, particularly
> software."
>
> " Some Linux users are easily dazzled by superfluous and completely useless
> effects (wobbly windows, blatant overuse of transparency, etc.) and assume
> that it must be better than Mac OS X because it's so cosmetically made-up
> and then there are others who only need the Terminal and can keep typing on
> it whole day long."
>
> " The problem with the Linux community is that, like any community, it has
> members with widely varying interests and preferences and the open source
> developers are developing hundreds of distributions to try and cater to
> every single whim and fancy of these members. The result is a cornucopia of
> free software, software that has been developed at the expense of the hard
> work and time of some of the most skilled developers on the planet, and yet
> does not have a single product that is complete in and of itself and is
> generating any profit at all."
>
> " There is no way whatsoever that thousands of developers sitting in front
> of their computers in different corners of the world and spending only
> their non-working hours trying to develop something that they know isn't
> going to make them any money, are ever going to come up with anything good
> enough to seriously challenge software from companies like Microsoft and
> Apple. There is just no chance at all."
>
> " Linux has been around for more than a decade now and it's nowhere near
> challenging either Mac OS X or Windows. The vast majority of hardware and
> software makers around the world are still shipping products that are
> incompatible with Linux."
>
> " There's no guarantee that the camera you bought today and is compatible
> with your Ubuntu installation will work with Fedora Core too should you
> change your mind in a few days, as is a common practice among the Linux
> enthusiasts."
>
> " All of this and more are reasons enough to ignore Linux. Linux users are
> never quite sure which one is the best distribution around. They have
> debates in their own community with twenty different users vouching for
> twenty different variations. They constantly have to keep figuring out
> workarounds to make all their software and hardware work together. They
> can't just go out and buy a new accessory, assured in the knowledge that it
> will work. They are afraid to upgrade, lest things go wrong."
>
> And so forth......
>
> Obviously this guy has had experience with LinSUX because his article is
> right on the money....
>

Why are you so afraid of Linux, Moshe?

Alias

"Alias" <> wrote in message
news:g15vm4$8kk$...


> Why are you so afraid of Linux, Moshe?
>
> Alias

Hi, alias, you are one of the ones who has been afraid to upgrade in the
past, how did it go this time?
Have the wobbly windows made your life better?

dennis@home wrote:
>
>
> "Alias" <> wrote in message
> news:g15vm4$8kk$...
>
>
>> Why are you so afraid of Linux, Moshe?
>>
>> Alias
>
> Hi, alias, you are one of the ones who has been afraid to upgrade in the
> past,

False. Where did you get that idea?

> how did it go this time?
> Have the wobbly windows made your life better?

Why would you think that or are you being facetious again?

Alias

"Alias" <> wrote in message
news:g15vm4$8kk$...
> Moshe. Goldfarb wrote:
>> http://www.applematters.com/article/...eems-to-care1/
>>
>> " The general consensus seems to be that Mac users are the sort who want
>> the best in quality, no expenses spared; Windows users are those who're
>> looking for the best bang for their buck (generally in the short term);
>> and
>> Linux users are the ones who want everything for free, particularly
>> software."
>>
>> " Some Linux users are easily dazzled by superfluous and completely
>> useless
>> effects (wobbly windows, blatant overuse of transparency, etc.) and
>> assume
>> that it must be better than Mac OS X because it's so cosmetically made-up
>> and then there are others who only need the Terminal and can keep typing
>> on
>> it whole day long."
>>
>> " The problem with the Linux community is that, like any community, it
>> has
>> members with widely varying interests and preferences and the open source
>> developers are developing hundreds of distributions to try and cater to
>> every single whim and fancy of these members. The result is a cornucopia
>> of
>> free software, software that has been developed at the expense of the
>> hard
>> work and time of some of the most skilled developers on the planet, and
>> yet
>> does not have a single product that is complete in and of itself and is
>> generating any profit at all."
>>
>> " There is no way whatsoever that thousands of developers sitting in
>> front
>> of their computers in different corners of the world and spending only
>> their non-working hours trying to develop something that they know isn't
>> going to make them any money, are ever going to come up with anything
>> good
>> enough to seriously challenge software from companies like Microsoft and
>> Apple. There is just no chance at all."
>>
>> " Linux has been around for more than a decade now and it's nowhere near
>> challenging either Mac OS X or Windows. The vast majority of hardware and
>> software makers around the world are still shipping products that are
>> incompatible with Linux."
>>
>> " There's no guarantee that the camera you bought today and is compatible
>> with your Ubuntu installation will work with Fedora Core too should you
>> change your mind in a few days, as is a common practice among the Linux
>> enthusiasts."
>>
>> " All of this and more are reasons enough to ignore Linux. Linux users
>> are
>> never quite sure which one is the best distribution around. They have
>> debates in their own community with twenty different users vouching for
>> twenty different variations. They constantly have to keep figuring out
>> workarounds to make all their software and hardware work together. They
>> can't just go out and buy a new accessory, assured in the knowledge that
>> it
>> will work. They are afraid to upgrade, lest things go wrong."
>>
>> And so forth......
>>
>> Obviously this guy has had experience with LinSUX because his article is
>> right on the money....
>>
>
> Why are you so afraid of Linux, Moshe?

I don't think he is. All the points made in this article are valid.

Linux won't make it into the mainstream as a business desktop OS. I'm IT
support manager for one of the biggest pharma companies in the world. There
isn't a hope in hell of us ever going to Linux, mainly because of the
reasons stated above but also we have 40,000 users worldwide. Where would
the money come to retrain them all? Who is going to pay for my staff's time
to rebuild all those machines with Linux on them?
Who's going to pay to retrain all my support staff to use a totally new OS?
What are our customers going to say when the documents we create and send
them don't open or format correctly on their Windows boxes?

It'd be like going back to the late 80s when I started in IT. We had 4
different word processing apps at my first company, none of which could talk
to the other without an add-on and lots of ****ing about.

I'm not saying Linux is a bad OS, it has it's uses, and I think if it had
the coverage Windows got when Win3 first came out, it would probably be
doing a lot better on the desktop, but it didn't, and it won't. Saying that,
I have 3 linux PCs at home, and I set my gran up with one running Ubuntu
recently, so I'm not *against* Linux per se.

Face it. I can go out and buy a named brand PC, with an OS for less than
£300 for our office. I can plug it in, and it just works when the user logs
in. It sees all the servers, the drives map. It does it perfectly. OK, it's
Windoze, but nothing is perfect. ..

Mike P

Mike P wrote:
> "Alias" <> wrote in message
> news:g15vm4$8kk$...
>> Moshe. Goldfarb wrote:
>>> http://www.applematters.com/article/...eems-to-care1/
>>>
>>> " The general consensus seems to be that Mac users are the sort who want
>>> the best in quality, no expenses spared; Windows users are those who're
>>> looking for the best bang for their buck (generally in the short term);
>>> and
>>> Linux users are the ones who want everything for free, particularly
>>> software."
>>>
>>> " Some Linux users are easily dazzled by superfluous and completely
>>> useless
>>> effects (wobbly windows, blatant overuse of transparency, etc.) and
>>> assume
>>> that it must be better than Mac OS X because it's so cosmetically made-up
>>> and then there are others who only need the Terminal and can keep typing
>>> on
>>> it whole day long."
>>>
>>> " The problem with the Linux community is that, like any community, it
>>> has
>>> members with widely varying interests and preferences and the open source
>>> developers are developing hundreds of distributions to try and cater to
>>> every single whim and fancy of these members. The result is a cornucopia
>>> of
>>> free software, software that has been developed at the expense of the
>>> hard
>>> work and time of some of the most skilled developers on the planet, and
>>> yet
>>> does not have a single product that is complete in and of itself and is
>>> generating any profit at all."
>>>
>>> " There is no way whatsoever that thousands of developers sitting in
>>> front
>>> of their computers in different corners of the world and spending only
>>> their non-working hours trying to develop something that they know isn't
>>> going to make them any money, are ever going to come up with anything
>>> good
>>> enough to seriously challenge software from companies like Microsoft and
>>> Apple. There is just no chance at all."
>>>
>>> " Linux has been around for more than a decade now and it's nowhere near
>>> challenging either Mac OS X or Windows. The vast majority of hardware and
>>> software makers around the world are still shipping products that are
>>> incompatible with Linux."
>>>
>>> " There's no guarantee that the camera you bought today and is compatible
>>> with your Ubuntu installation will work with Fedora Core too should you
>>> change your mind in a few days, as is a common practice among the Linux
>>> enthusiasts."
>>>
>>> " All of this and more are reasons enough to ignore Linux. Linux users
>>> are
>>> never quite sure which one is the best distribution around. They have
>>> debates in their own community with twenty different users vouching for
>>> twenty different variations. They constantly have to keep figuring out
>>> workarounds to make all their software and hardware work together. They
>>> can't just go out and buy a new accessory, assured in the knowledge that
>>> it
>>> will work. They are afraid to upgrade, lest things go wrong."
>>>
>>> And so forth......
>>>
>>> Obviously this guy has had experience with LinSUX because his article is
>>> right on the money....
>>>
>> Why are you so afraid of Linux, Moshe?
>
> I don't think he is. All the points made in this article are valid.
>
> Linux won't make it into the mainstream as a business desktop OS. I'm IT
> support manager for one of the biggest pharma companies in the world. There
> isn't a hope in hell of us ever going to Linux, mainly because of the
> reasons stated above but also we have 40,000 users worldwide. Where would
> the money come to retrain them all? Who is going to pay for my staff's time
> to rebuild all those machines with Linux on them?
> Who's going to pay to retrain all my support staff to use a totally new OS?
> What are our customers going to say when the documents we create and send
> them don't open or format correctly on their Windows boxes?
>
> It'd be like going back to the late 80s when I started in IT. We had 4
> different word processing apps at my first company, none of which could talk
> to the other without an add-on and lots of ****ing about.
>
> I'm not saying Linux is a bad OS, it has it's uses, and I think if it had
> the coverage Windows got when Win3 first came out, it would probably be
> doing a lot better on the desktop, but it didn't, and it won't. Saying that,
> I have 3 linux PCs at home, and I set my gran up with one running Ubuntu
> recently, so I'm not *against* Linux per se.
>
> Face it. I can go out and buy a named brand PC, with an OS for less than
> �300 for our office. I can plug it in, and it just works when the user logs
> in. It sees all the servers, the drives map. It does it perfectly. OK, it's
> Windoze, but nothing is perfect. ..
>
> Mike P
>
>

Let's see, 40,000 workstations with Vista and all need to be trained or
40,000 workstations with Ubuntu and all need to be trained. What's the
difference? Vista is expensive, both for the software itself and the
upgraded hardware, and Ubuntu is free. If you want your company to stay
in the past, don't train them to use Ubuntu and train them to use Vista
and fork out the money for new hardware.

And that doesn't include the cost of cleaning off viruses and malware
from these Windows workstations.

Alias

In article <1jjsl67rniymr$.d1hhjl07keuj$.>, Moshe.
Goldfarb <> wrote:

> http://www.applematters.com/article/...eems-to-care1/
>
> " The general consensus seems to be that Mac users are the sort who want
> the best in quality, no expenses spared; Windows users are those who're
> looking for the best bang for their buck (generally in the short term); and
> Linux users are the ones who want everything for free, particularly
> software."
A general consensus, not a summary of reasons or of personalities.
People may buy Mac because they refuse to deal with Windows, but still
want a full OS and reliability.

> " Some Linux users are easily dazzled by superfluous and completely useless
> effects (wobbly windows, blatant overuse of transparency, etc.) and assume
> that it must be better than Mac OS X because it's so cosmetically made-up
Yes; there are always people around assuming that the most obvious and
shiny part if the best one. Glamor effects are useless, and often
detracting, not beneficial -- even if they are technically impressive
and complicated or hard to make happen.

> " The problem with the Linux community is that, like any community, it has
> members with widely varying interests
Didn't he start by saying it is uniform?

> " There is no way whatsoever that thousands of developers sitting in front
> of their computers in different corners of the world and spending only
> their non-working hours trying to develop something that they know isn't
> going to make them any money, are ever going to come up with anything good
> enough to seriously challenge software from companies like Microsoft and
> Apple. There is just no chance at all."
That's ignorant. There are many examples, especially in software, of
individuals making great products or tools.

> " Linux has been around for more than a decade now and it's nowhere near
> challenging either Mac OS X or Windows.
Only because the 'challenging' part is being gauged by something that
Linux doesn't do -- retail sales from a single provider.
There is no doubt it is significant, being useful, being applied in
important ways, and being enjoyed by the type of people who very well
could produce the next important products.

> " There's no guarantee that the camera you bought today and is compatible
> with your Ubuntu installation will work with Fedora Core too
But the situation is more flexible and changing than that, has more
frequent upgrades and updates, and -- probably most importantly -- it
is easy and common to just have more than one OS to use for different
tasks. That means the worst consequence might be having to reboot.

> " All of this and more are reasons enough to ignore Linux. Linux users are
> never quite sure which one is the best distribution around. They have
> debates in their own community with twenty different users vouching for
> twenty different variations. They constantly have to keep figuring out
> workarounds to make all their software and hardware work together. They
> can't just go out and buy a new accessory, assured in the knowledge that it
> will work. They are afraid to upgrade, lest things go wrong."
Linux users are afraid to upgrade?
Most people would suggest they do this more than almost all other user
types, particularly for software, and that they have little hesitation
making other changes.

In article <1jjsl67rniymr$.d1hhjl07keuj$.>,
Moshe the Troll <> wrote:
>
>" There is no way whatsoever that thousands of developers sitting in front
>of their computers in different corners of the world and spending only
>their non-working hours trying to develop something that they know isn't
>going to make them any money, are ever going to come up with anything good
>enough to seriously challenge software from companies like Microsoft and
>Apple. There is just no chance at all."
>

Apache. Mysql. Perl. Php. Bind. Inn. Dhcpd. Netfilter.

**Linux**

BTW, what OS is MacOS based on? Windows 2003, right? No?


>" Linux has been around for more than a decade now and it's nowhere near
>challenging either Mac OS X or Windows. The vast majority of hardware and
>software makers around the world are still shipping products that are
>incompatible with Linux."
>

For instance, Ditch Witch has absolutely no Linux support whatsoever.

"Alias" <> wrote in message
news:g16382$8rt$...
> Mike P wrote:
>> "Alias" <> wrote in message
>> news:g15vm4$8kk$...
>>> Moshe. Goldfarb wrote:
>>>> http://www.applematters.com/article/...eems-to-care1/
>>>>
>>>> " The general consensus seems to be that Mac users are the sort who
>>>> want
>>>> the best in quality, no expenses spared; Windows users are those who're
>>>> looking for the best bang for their buck (generally in the short term);
>>>> and
>>>> Linux users are the ones who want everything for free, particularly
>>>> software."
>>>>
>>>> " Some Linux users are easily dazzled by superfluous and completely
>>>> useless
>>>> effects (wobbly windows, blatant overuse of transparency, etc.) and
>>>> assume
>>>> that it must be better than Mac OS X because it's so cosmetically
>>>> made-up
>>>> and then there are others who only need the Terminal and can keep
>>>> typing on
>>>> it whole day long."
>>>>
>>>> " The problem with the Linux community is that, like any community, it
>>>> has
>>>> members with widely varying interests and preferences and the open
>>>> source
>>>> developers are developing hundreds of distributions to try and cater to
>>>> every single whim and fancy of these members. The result is a
>>>> cornucopia of
>>>> free software, software that has been developed at the expense of the
>>>> hard
>>>> work and time of some of the most skilled developers on the planet, and
>>>> yet
>>>> does not have a single product that is complete in and of itself and is
>>>> generating any profit at all."
>>>>
>>>> " There is no way whatsoever that thousands of developers sitting in
>>>> front
>>>> of their computers in different corners of the world and spending only
>>>> their non-working hours trying to develop something that they know
>>>> isn't
>>>> going to make them any money, are ever going to come up with anything
>>>> good
>>>> enough to seriously challenge software from companies like Microsoft
>>>> and
>>>> Apple. There is just no chance at all."
>>>>
>>>> " Linux has been around for more than a decade now and it's nowhere
>>>> near
>>>> challenging either Mac OS X or Windows. The vast majority of hardware
>>>> and
>>>> software makers around the world are still shipping products that are
>>>> incompatible with Linux."
>>>>
>>>> " There's no guarantee that the camera you bought today and is
>>>> compatible
>>>> with your Ubuntu installation will work with Fedora Core too should you
>>>> change your mind in a few days, as is a common practice among the Linux
>>>> enthusiasts."
>>>>
>>>> " All of this and more are reasons enough to ignore Linux. Linux users
>>>> are
>>>> never quite sure which one is the best distribution around. They have
>>>> debates in their own community with twenty different users vouching for
>>>> twenty different variations. They constantly have to keep figuring out
>>>> workarounds to make all their software and hardware work together. They
>>>> can't just go out and buy a new accessory, assured in the knowledge
>>>> that it
>>>> will work. They are afraid to upgrade, lest things go wrong."
>>>>
>>>> And so forth......
>>>>
>>>> Obviously this guy has had experience with LinSUX because his article
>>>> is
>>>> right on the money....
>>>>
>>> Why are you so afraid of Linux, Moshe?
>>
>> I don't think he is. All the points made in this article are valid.
>>
>> Linux won't make it into the mainstream as a business desktop OS. I'm IT
>> support manager for one of the biggest pharma companies in the world.
>> There isn't a hope in hell of us ever going to Linux, mainly because of
>> the reasons stated above but also we have 40,000 users worldwide. Where
>> would the money come to retrain them all? Who is going to pay for my
>> staff's time to rebuild all those machines with Linux on them?
>> Who's going to pay to retrain all my support staff to use a totally new
>> OS? What are our customers going to say when the documents we create and
>> send them don't open or format correctly on their Windows boxes?
>>
>> It'd be like going back to the late 80s when I started in IT. We had 4
>> different word processing apps at my first company, none of which could
>> talk to the other without an add-on and lots of ****ing about.
>>
>> I'm not saying Linux is a bad OS, it has it's uses, and I think if it had
>> the coverage Windows got when Win3 first came out, it would probably be
>> doing a lot better on the desktop, but it didn't, and it won't. Saying
>> that, I have 3 linux PCs at home, and I set my gran up with one running
>> Ubuntu recently, so I'm not *against* Linux per se.
>>
>> Face it. I can go out and buy a named brand PC, with an OS for less than
>> ?300 for our office. I can plug it in, and it just works when the user
>> logs in. It sees all the servers, the drives map. It does it perfectly.
>> OK, it's Windoze, but nothing is perfect. ..
>>
>> Mike P
>>
>>
>
> Let's see, 40,000 workstations with Vista and all need to be trained or
> 40,000 workstations with Ubuntu and all need to be trained. What's the
> difference? Vista is expensive, both for the software itself and the
> upgraded hardware, and Ubuntu is free. If you want your company to stay in
> the past, don't train them to use Ubuntu and train them to use Vista and
> fork out the money for new hardware.
>
> And that doesn't include the cost of cleaning off viruses and malware from
> these Windows workstations.
>

What viruses? We've not had a virus outbreak since 2002...

We don't need to train most users to use Vista, because XP works very well
and is very stable for our needs. Even if we did, Vista isn't expensive for
us, has a "familiar" feel to it, and our corporate image would be set as
we've set XP up so there wouldn't be a great deal of change.

We'll only start upgrading once the machines we buy are no longer supplied
with XP, even then they have a 3 year life cycle then are replaced, which is
standard practice for corporate IT departments. So we won't upgrade until
absolutely necessary. It's not "staying in the past", it's good business
sense to use something that works reliably, which contrary to Linux users
beliefs, Windows does in a corporate environment when set up correctly.

We have a lot of in house software written for windoze, and other software
( clinical trial software, Drug regulatory software etc ) that only works on
Windoze.

Mike P

In article <>,
Mike P <> wrote:
>
>I don't think he is. All the points made in this article are valid.
>

Oh, horseshit. "Wobbly windows" ? "Afraid to upgrade"? Give
me a break...

>to rebuild all those machines with Linux on them?

And the IT manager for one of the biggest companies in the world
has never heard of an incremental rollout?

>Who's going to pay to retrain all my support staff to use a totally new OS?

Just a guess, mind you, but perhaps the same executives who
considered the cost of retraining when they decided that moving to a new
platform was a cost effective solution to having their business held
hostage to Redmond?

In the cases where I've seen Linux make significant inroads on the
desktop it's uniformly been a "grassroots" movement. Typically a few
of the more technical employees will switch, and their success convinces
others. It's possible only in an organization that encourages its employees
to think and gives them permission to innovate. That's probably why you
don't see it happen often.