Tim,
Have you ever worked for Empi?

-----Original Message-----
From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org
[mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Tim Sinks
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 8:55 AM
To: TCLUG Mailing List
Subject: [TCLUG] Linux and M$ and RH

The big thing about the use of Windows and associated os sw is the
ability
to move from work to home and on the road without a lot of shuffling. I
can
take a laptop to work with my Win and Office and move things back and
forth
from the work station to the laptop and never miss a beat. I can move
things
from my Linux to the M$ side of the laptop and back. If the home is left
to
Bill, then there is no hope for Linux. But, again the key is ease of use
and
all.
You folks have missed the fact that RH can be had on several of the
other
big PC companies - Dell, HP, Sun. HP was the first with the package for
the
PC's and servers.
The hold up is still the ability to move between systems and have all
the
bells and whistles associated with the packages you are going to use the
most. This does not mean people use all or even a good portion of those
attributes. I can't tell you how many desks or people I have come to
help
that have set up and get comfortable with something and work out a way
to do
something that isn't even the b&w which could make it easier. They say
'WOW'
or 'I'll be' when you show them the fixture and it works. Or they
continue
to do it with their workaround because it's comfortable. We are
creatures of
habit and will, like water, seek the easiest path to nirvana or the
ocean.

Keep looking up,
Tim Sinks
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Kaufman" <jmk at kaufman.eden-prairie.mn.us>
To: <tanner at real-time.com>; "TCLUG Mailing List"
<tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 7:47 AM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Redhat says to use Windows?


> On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:34:53AM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote:
> > Why do people think the home user is the holy grail of where linux
should be
> > or wants to go?
> >
> > -- 
> > Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com>         | Phone : (952)943-8700
> > http://www.mn-linux.org, Minnesota, Linux | Fax   : (952)943-8500
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> >
>
> Linus thinks the desktop is where it's at. Servers are easy and Linux
already
> shines in that arena. Desktops are difficult to do right (so many
variables in
> hardware and software).
>
> If Linux focuses on the office desktop segment, then there would be a
natural
> tendency for those users to also want Linux at home. There might then
be a
> ripple effect in which spouses and children of those users start using
Linux.
> Further, w/o the home user (ie, lots and lots and lots of users),
hardware
> manufacturers have less incentive to provide support.
>
> Just seems to me that the more home users, then issues like "Why
doesn't
this
> web page show the movie I expected?" and "Why doesn't this PC play
music?"
will
> become non-issues because everthing will work as exepcted.
>
> -- 
> Jim Kaufman mailto:jmk at linuxforbusiness.net
> Linux Evangelist cell: 612-481-9778
> public key 0x6D802619 fax:  952-937-9832
> http://www.linuxforbusiness.net
>
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