[GRLUG] Linux use

[Roger Roelofs]

From a personal use perspective, normal people I know don't care which
OS they are running.  The days of OS fandom seem to be slipping away.
The occasional jibe I hear is more like an echo of a formet day.   The
questions revolve around whether they can do what they need to do and
how often the computer gets in their way.   I use a mac at work and
now arch at home.  Even though the mac has more polish, I think I'm
more productive at home.

From a business perspective, I'm amazed at how the specialized
software rules the OS decisions.  For example, we have some users on
PPC macs because the software I helped write 12 years ago still needs
to run.  We may get to rewrite it soon and if we do, it will be web
based.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Indeed.  That's where the M$ monopoly
>> > really pays off.  Vendors would much
>> > rather support just one version of their
>> > software than three or more - windoz,
>> > OS X, and Linux, for example.  Much
>> > more profitable to have one near universal
>> > platform.



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Roger

Roger Roelofs
Know what you value.

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