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From: Peter Köhlmann on 10 Jan 2010 08:39 Hadron wrote: > Phil Stovell <phil(a)stovell.nospam.org.uk> writes: > >> On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:33:28 +0000, Conor wrote: >> >>> In article <No32n.24084$Ym4.11961(a)text.news.virginmedia.com>, 7 >>> says... >>> >>>> All the excuses don't compare with rock steady cost saving Linux. >>> >>> <snigger> >>> Linux - free if your time is worthless. >>> >>> If Linux is so good, how come Windows 7 got 5 times the market share >>> in 1/40th the time it took Linux to get to 1%? >> >> Because retailers don't make money off free software so have no >> incentive to put it on their PCs. Free software isn't advertised and >> free software isn't included in the trial bloatware that infests new >> PCs. I always advise people to remove the crud that comes with their PC >> and to install things like Avast and OpenOffice. > > Do you also advise them that OO wont work with many of their existing > documents? What documents would that be, Hadron Snot Quark? -- Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have!
From: Phil Stovell on 10 Jan 2010 08:47 On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:39:07 +0100, Peter Köhlmann wrote: > Hadron wrote: > >> Phil Stovell <phil(a)stovell.nospam.org.uk> writes: >> >>> On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:33:28 +0000, Conor wrote: >>> >>>> In article <No32n.24084$Ym4.11961(a)text.news.virginmedia.com>, 7 >>>> says... >>>> >>>>> All the excuses don't compare with rock steady cost saving Linux. >>>> >>>> <snigger> >>>> Linux - free if your time is worthless. >>>> >>>> If Linux is so good, how come Windows 7 got 5 times the market share >>>> in 1/40th the time it took Linux to get to 1%? >>> >>> Because retailers don't make money off free software so have no >>> incentive to put it on their PCs. Free software isn't advertised and >>> free software isn't included in the trial bloatware that infests new >>> PCs. I always advise people to remove the crud that comes with their PC >>> and to install things like Avast and OpenOffice. >> >> Do you also advise them that OO wont work with many of their existing >> documents? > > What documents would that be, Hadron Snot Quark? Ask him to email you one that won't work to prove it. A friend often emails me Excel and Word 2007 documents which work fine with OO 3.0 and he can read my documents OK (saved as .XLS or .DOC, of course). Bye-bye (again).
From: Hadron on 10 Jan 2010 09:05 Phil Stovell <phil(a)stovell.nospam.org.uk> writes: > On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:39:07 +0100, Peter Köhlmann wrote: > >> Hadron wrote: >> >>> Phil Stovell <phil(a)stovell.nospam.org.uk> writes: >>> >>>> On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:33:28 +0000, Conor wrote: >>>> >>>>> In article <No32n.24084$Ym4.11961(a)text.news.virginmedia.com>, 7 >>>>> says... >>>>> >>>>>> All the excuses don't compare with rock steady cost saving Linux. >>>>> >>>>> <snigger> >>>>> Linux - free if your time is worthless. >>>>> >>>>> If Linux is so good, how come Windows 7 got 5 times the market share >>>>> in 1/40th the time it took Linux to get to 1%? >>>> >>>> Because retailers don't make money off free software so have no >>>> incentive to put it on their PCs. Free software isn't advertised and >>>> free software isn't included in the trial bloatware that infests new >>>> PCs. I always advise people to remove the crud that comes with their PC >>>> and to install things like Avast and OpenOffice. >>> >>> Do you also advise them that OO wont work with many of their existing >>> documents? >> >> What documents would that be, Hadron Snot Quark? > > Ask him to email you one that won't work to prove it. > > A friend often emails me Excel and Word 2007 documents which work fine > with OO 3.0 and he can read my documents OK (saved as .XLS or .DOC, of > course). > > Bye-bye (again). You're both in denial and both obviously do NOT use OO or MSO since anyone that does knows that as soon as you start any half decent formatting then OO falls over. Its been proven time and time again and I dont intend to post the same links over and over again
From: 7 on 10 Jan 2010 09:09 Jenn rote: > Conor wrote: >> In article <No32n.24084$Ym4.11961(a)text.news.virginmedia.com>, 7 >> says... >> >>> All the excuses don't compare with rock steady >>> cost saving Linux. >> >> <snigger> >> Linux - free if your time is worthless. >> >> If Linux is so good, how come Windows 7 got 5 times the market share >> in 1/40th the time it took Linux to get to 1%? 33% of all netbooks sold is with Linux. The market share is still increasing. > ... because Windows is geared toward the general pc user, which is a > bigger > market than Linux users. Market share has no bearing on whether a system > is > better than another. They are totally different markets altogether. Windopws is now used mainly by amateur home users and professional amateurs in terms of stature. The professionals all use Linux. Professional Linux users make the embedded devices, smartphones, ebook readers, printers, smartbooks, tablets, netbooks, run data centers, run servers, run all the big database based services, run financial services and run big government projects. Closed source is not generating as much wealth or sharing it out with the manufacturers and retailers as much as it used to in terms of business volume compared to open source. Every flat TV sold contains Linux, so does MP3 players, MP4 players, MP5 players, ebooks, smartphones, etc. Some 3 million+ embedded electronic gadgets bring Linux based income to retailers and manufacturers alike. A smart retailer should look into all the other Linux based products and expand stock range to make even more money instead of pondering in the dark about where the next income is coming from. Coming down the line are new range of smartphones, tablets, smartbooks, netbooks, ebooks all of which carries Linux.
From: Baron on 10 Jan 2010 09:54
Hadron Inscribed thus: > Phil Stovell <phil(a)stovell.nospam.org.uk> writes: > >> On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:33:28 +0000, Conor wrote: >> >>> In article <No32n.24084$Ym4.11961(a)text.news.virginmedia.com>, 7 >>> says... >>> >>>> All the excuses don't compare with rock steady cost saving Linux. >>> >>> <snigger> >>> Linux - free if your time is worthless. >>> >>> If Linux is so good, how come Windows 7 got 5 times the market share >>> in 1/40th the time it took Linux to get to 1%? >> >> Because retailers don't make money off free software so have no >> incentive to put it on their PCs. Free software isn't advertised and >> free software isn't included in the trial bloatware that infests new >> PCs. I always advise people to remove the crud that comes with their >> PC and to install things like Avast and OpenOffice. > > Do you also advise them that OO wont work with many of their existing > documents? I've yet to find that true ! -- Best Regards: Baron. |