<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 20, 2007 3:07 PM, Jorge La <<a href="mailto:weeneedhelp@gmail.com">weeneedhelp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>But I personally think a lot of people dont really care about the OS they use as long as it works. I have more success recruiting people to join the U.S. Army then Linux so far. (4-1)<p><DEFANGED_div><p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div><p><DEFANGED_div class="Wj3C7c">
<br></p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div></blockquote><p><DEFANGED_div>The point and click crowd would probably<br>be perfectly happy with Linux for surfing <br>and e-mail.<br><br>The problem could come when they go and<br>buy do-dads that aren't supported on Linux.
<br>A lot of scanners and printers are, but software<br>and drivers for things like cameras and other<br>toys are invariably just for windoz. Sometimes<br>the Mac, but rarely Linux. While there are often<br>workarounds, the bulk of PC users, who can
<br>barely use e-mail or a scanner to start with, are<br>then dead in the water.<br><br>And unhappy. The likely reasons that people<br>will stick with windoz are because of the tens<br>of $billions of dollars of training that businesses
<br>spent teaching people to use it, and those people<br>go home, set up the same thing, and make <br>their families use it. Schools do the same now.<br>They used to be bastions of Mac users, but M$<br>saw through that soon enough.
<br><br>And the applications. M$ essentially has proprietary<br>deals with many hardware vendors, and the easiest<br>course of action is almost always to use the M$ way.<br><br>If it was just e-mail and surfing, even casual users
<br>would win with Linux.<br><br> -Bob<br><br></p><DEFANGED_div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><p><DEFANGED_div><p><DEFANGED_div class="Wj3C7c"><br> </p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div>
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