On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, vinayak_hegde@softhome.net wrote:
- The local cyber-cafe wallah (who probably took a loan) and is more concerned in making money than learning a new OS
That he can. My friend runs a cybercafe with diskless systems and squid as proxy. The diskless systems were brought for dirt cheap throwaway price. He finds it easy to manage the network bcos he uses linux. Can Windows offer more value for money.
Learning Curve, piracy, Windows 2K/XP
- The DTP shop-wallah who has
Photoshop,CorelDraw,I-leap,Pagemaker....
Well you need to fiddle with photoshop and cousins to learn them as well. And they get the job done well and quick. GIMP even has script-fu to get the job quickly. If u are not satisfied with what you get u can write your filters. Latex is really good when it comes to document foramtting so is postscript.
Learning Curve, not many professionals knowing GIMP, CMYK prob with GIMP
- The Photo-studio guy who just bought an 15,000 worth printer with the driver CD's
The printer can work and many printers do work on linux.
^^^^ i wish that were all
- The engg. (CS) student who took a paid seat, invested more than 2
You can make big bucks as well as gain fame by writing good free software.
Not comparable with the biggies I feel. Even on the Usenet ppl confess that they earn bread and butter w/ biggies nd Linux is their hobby. No free s/w supporting company can compete with the philanthrophy of Bill Gates. It seems Microsoft is making money for good afterall :)
M$'s crappy software is worth just that. On second thoughts maybe less.
please, we need not be bigots
Nikhil