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Maybe we r not spreading enough awareness, besides rampant piracy aint helping either. For people windows is free in any case and this makes it harder to make them see the light.
Most of the people know... the trouble is accountability, ease of use, trained people. * Accountability so that the govt can point to someone the next time they screw up. * Ease of use so that the machines help the ppl and not the other way around (so far I have only recommend Knoppix and Suse for hassle-free installs, not tried all of course). * Trained people - I think as on today, it is definitely easier to get 10 ppl who can maintain a Windows zone than to get the same who can maintain a Linux installation. (no matter the viruses, the service packs, the cost,...) * Killer Applications. Something like a spreadsheet can be put to uses no one ever thinks of. Most people don't care if their OS is the most stable thing on earth.. as long as it does not get in their way of getting their job done.
One suggession, maybe targetting college festivals like malhar and mood i will be a good idea and we can try and explain what free software is all about.
Man..That will be one empty place, apart from the stoned ones.
On 12/08/05 11:22 +0530, Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) wrote:
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Maybe we r not spreading enough awareness, besides rampant piracy aint helping either. For people windows is free in any case and this makes it harder to make them see the light.
Most of the people know... the trouble is accountability, ease of use, trained people.
Interesting points.
- Accountability so that the govt can point to someone
the next time they screw up.
You don't get that with propietary software vendors either. Read that EULA.
- Ease of use so that the machines help the ppl and not the other way
around (so far I have only recommend Knoppix and Suse for hassle-free installs, not tried all of course).
Irrelevant. This is not a home desktop where you have to fight hardware yourself. Corporate desktops should be standardised, and you should not have the crappy windows only hardware issue there.
- Trained people - I think as on today, it is definitely easier
to get 10 ppl who can maintain a Windows zone than to get the same who can maintain a Linux installation. (no matter the viruses, the service packs, the cost,...)
Really? I would like to know a few good people in India who can admin Windows boxes properly. I mean, take a policy statement written in natural language, convert it to a set of technical policy statements, apply those policies and roll out systems.
Just being able to setup AD and point and click your way through a Windows setup is not good enough. Any idiot can do that, and you can do the equivalent with Linux as well. Linux is even easier to roll out over larger installations.
There are very few people who are that good.
- Killer Applications. Something like a spreadsheet can be put to uses
no one ever thinks of. Most people don't care if their OS is the most stable thing on earth.. as long as it does not get in their way of getting their job done.
So, can we have requirements please? As opposed to saying "give me everything MS Excel has, and do it for free". Remember, we are concerned with the availability of the code, not the cost. Plus, FLOSS is often concerned with doing things right rather than doing it quick and cheap.
I have no idea of who said this but it is appropriate: The only intutive interface is the nipple, everything else is learnt.
Devdas Bhagat
Sometime on Aug 12, DB cobbled together some glyphs to say:
I have no idea of who said this but it is appropriate: The only intutive interface is the nipple, everything else is learnt.
Bruce Ediger on X interfaces
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