infinity wrote:
> Douglas Mayne wrote:
 

The biggest reason is that your user has his head up his XXX. My user
doesn't give a damn what OS he is using, as long as it runs the program
that he wants to run to do the job he has to do.
[vbcol=seagreen] 

Nonsense.  The major "cost" of the "free" platform is that nobody writes
any software of consequence for it.  I don't want to have to invent, and
then manufacture a lightbulb just to get light on in the hallway.  I
don't want to have to manufacture a lightbulb whenever my lightbulb
burns out.  I have better, much more creative things to do with my time.

[vbcol=seagreen]
> I believe there are as many people who would
> pay the same (OR MORE) price that millions now give
> to Mock-o-shit, for a good stable Linux distribution.
>
> Everyone who uses computers recognize that the people
> who write computer programs are some type of very special
> Gods, or alien people from a distant planet!
>
> But, there are some very brilliant people who perform
> un-expected miracles with the programmers creations.
>
> I'm sure that whoever wrote the first Spread Sheet, Data base
> or Word processor, never dreamed the things would
> change the world (we now live in) to the extent that they
> did.
>
> There is more to life than puzzling over computer code.
> and then trying to make something revolutionary out it.
>
>    After all... Lets not forget computers are
>    *Tools for doing the _things_ we need to do*
>
> Having an epitaph on your tombstone of being a "Buggy Code
> Writer" does not gain anyone immortality... I can do THAT!!
>
>    Does anyone remember DBASE and why the Ashton Tate Company
>    went out of business or the downfall of Seagate?
>
>  Anything worth doing is worth doing it... RIGHT/Correct!
>
>  To hell with something FREE, if it's practically worthless....
>
>       Phew!!!.......

If linux does the job you need it to do, then use it.  But if MS does
the job better, then use it.  This nonsense about "learning" with linux,
particularly with slackware, is idiotic.  Only the tiniest percentage of
linux users could write a moderately difficult C program and that is ok
because others have done it for them.  I am using Cakewalk and MS right
now to do music because there is nothing comparable to Cakewalk
available for the linux system.

cordially, as always,

rm

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