Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 20:06:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 20:06:28 -0400 Received: from ppp-164.29.triton.net ([216.65.164.29]:4781 "HELO tabris.domedata.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 20:06:13 -0400 Message-ID: <3B3FBAF0.5090603@lycosmail.com> Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 20:06:08 -0400 From: Adam Schrotenboer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-ac15 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML Subject: Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU! In-Reply-To: <3B3F5F5C.40907@lycosmail.com> <20010701130151.A10989@ChaoticDreams.ORG> <3B3F9CD5.60701@magenta-netlogic.com> <3B3FACEC.897D910A@mirai.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Perhaps I should say again that my current IT job is working w/ small businesses and personal/home installations. In these cases, as well as with others, it is not so much the OS that I have a problem w/. It is the insistence of an all Macroshaft solution. Windows isn't totally bad. I would never say so. But being forced into M$ Office, MSIE, etc, and trying to support these arguably inferior products is a real PITA. IE, Windows Web Sharing, MS Frontpage, etc are all bad knockoffs of other better products (IE isn't too bad, but I still don't like it, and I dislike Outlook{, Express} even more). Because they're M$ products, end [l]users believe that they must be more compatible or better than other solutions, (such as Netscape, Netscape Composer, WinRoute, etc). M$ products are not all bad, but their marketing efforts and predatory efforts to lock people into these products is bad. B/c M$ products are for the end luser, the lowest common denominator, I find them annoying when they try to fix my "mistakes", b/c they think they know better than I do. M$ is going toward Macintrash, point & drool, etc. J Sloan wrote: >Tony Hoyle wrote: > >>I didn't choose to use MS, I merely chose to be able to pay the rent. >>The choice is basically use MS or don't work in the computer industry. >> > >Fortunately it's not so from what I can see, although microsoft >is frantically working to make it so. > >>Hell, I'd even take a pay cut if someone had a Linux job on offer. >>Never seen one... never likely to either in the near future. >> > >Have you been living under a rock for the last 2 years? > >Go to dice.com and search on Linux and you will numerous >hits. My day job is to admin Linux, Solaris and HP-UX, and >I also get a lot of side jobs doing Linux installs and remote >Linux admin. > >I wish I had time to take on all the Linux work offered to me. > >cu > >jjs > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/