I agree with you completely. Our company is Linux/SCO and five machines
running Vmware for some of the Accounting people who refuse to anything
but Windoze. We have about 60 X-Terminals running an X-Windows transportation
application which we wrote ourselves. The company management and I "don't
do Windoze" not because it is easier; on the contrary, it is harder. We
"don't do Windoze" because it IS Windoze. Period. We've had some challenges
to overcome because of this position, but we wouldn't have it any other
way. We have always been able to accomplish the task of running the business
without Windoze and we are very proud of that. Some people call us "crazy",
but we don't see it that way.
sangell@nan.net wrote:
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And won't be as long as people have that kind of
attitude. Sometimes
you just have to do what's right, although it might be painful You're
not doing what's right.
You're not the only one who could take the 'easy way out' and just use
M$ products. My company has been moving that direction
for a few years
now. I've been fighting it all the way. I even changed
assignments/organizations in order to better position myself to make
a
difference, be heard on this issue at the corporate level, and most
of
all, enable myself to continue to work on a non-Microsoft platform.
Yeah, there's been a lot of pain. A lot of time I've spent trying
to
figure out how to make it work, when I could have just fallen back
to
the pre-install Windows that once had graced my corporate laptop.
Have I made a difference? I don't know, but there is now a Linux
vpn
client for our corporate vpn and I'm running my vpn through a little
box
that is provided by the corporation and is a firewall/router that's
running Linux. I never thought I'd see the day, truly.
Don't get me wrong, I still have to fire up vmware/windows to view some
word docs, because they aren't properly formatted by anything I've
found
on Linux. But, I'm not going to just give in. I am so much
more
productive now that I've got a real operating system to work with.
So
the initial pain was worth it.
If you want to make a difference you've got to do something and not
just
follow the crowd. Following the crowd, that's cowardice.
Some folks
don't have a choice, so be it. But, if/when you do, you've got
to do
the right thing.
> So I suppose I'm one of those that are keeping Microsoft on top and
> linux trying to catch up. But I'm not the only one. One of the reasons
why I
> am on the MS side is the people who are writing software for Windows.
And why would that put you on M$'s side?
> I
> don't know what the numbers are for Win programmers as opposed to
linux
> programmers, but I'd be willing to bet it's better than 4 to 1. Maybe
even
> 10 to 1. I don't know.
> I'm not out to bash Linux. Hell, I've been a linux
user/programmer/advocate
> for more than 8 years. I'm also not out to bash Microsoft.
I don't think I would call myself an advocate.
I will say this, there are very few people like yourself who have some
knowledge of Linux and Windows, and continue to have a preference for
windows. Most Microsoft advocates know nothing but Microsoft,
so
they're making comments/decisions without knowing the full picture.
>
> <flame suit> # because most readers are anti-MS and pro-[anything
anti-MS]
Understand though, this is not a prejudice. the anti-MS folks
on this
list are well educated people who have made conscious decisions based
on
their research, knowledge and backgrounds. Unlike the majority
of
Microsoft supporters, who have not made the effort to see what else
is
truly available.
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that
are not made adequately clear in the technical documentation available."
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- http://www.avirubin.com/passport.html
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