Re: Help to Promote Linux!

In article <6984su$dhd@camel21.mindspring.com>, Tim Schaefer wrote: >Michael Talbot-Wilson contemplated the universe, then, watching the > >>Many people are anxious to see software for other OSs ported to Linux. >>If you really have no choice but to use that software and you want to >>run it on a decent OS, that is understandable, but it really doesn't >>make a lot of difference to "us", if you are referring to Linux and its >>users in general. >> > >Speaking for all of the Linux users of course. :-) Did I say all, or were you able to infer it from the expression "Linux ... users in general"? ><Tim gives a long burp... tosses beer can... Bill Gates is poorer?> I am impressed by the intelligent level of discussion here. >>There is an attitude of mind in many commercial operators that makes >>free software unmentionable. Lives are dedicated to marketing, that is, >>growing the size of the market in dollar terms. To people driven by >>that attitude, Linux is anathema. It is something to be destroyed. >>It is not a thing that it is respectable to consider or discuss. >>This attitude is not going to be voluntarily disclosed to you as >>you and your friend make your stange way among them. >> > ><spell checker please... yawn... no more beer, damn!> I think you mean a dictionary. Or you would if you could. Perhaps you should go back to school. >>This is not something to lament, and I think the air of crisis that >>your post conveys is mistaken. If major companies with dominant >>products stay out of Linux an opportunity is created for others >>to create software which will fill the gap in functionality. >>Ultimately they, not "we", will be the losers. > >Oh, I see, <burp> if commercial products make their way to Linux, >this will cut in on your free software deals. Kinda like the Oh. Did I say commercial products were unwanted on Linux? You found me out, huh? >overpopulation arguments. "There's only so much room for software >on Linux, and no room for commercial products. " . You have facts >to back up your assertions, I'm sure. :-) > > >>To concern yourself excessively with existing commercial software is You see, I thought I was talking about _existing_ commercial software. Sorry I made the point so obsurely that you couldn't understand it. >>to live in the past. Linux people do not need to be troubled about >>what others did in the past. We have a good OS, a tremendous >>development platform, and we are free to look at what the future is >>going to require. >> >>All IMHO. > >Somehow :-) your post made it to the internet, with your free software, >where *somebody* paid for the T1, and the hardware to run the software. >Everything costs something, including the electricity necessary to run >the computer. ( Will program for food. ) Thank you. It made it to the Internet, via a link with a commercial provider which I negotiated and which at my end I designed and set up, both hardware and software; and it was free software as you say. The viability and the ideal or ideology of free software had been amply debated on Usenet before you came along. I am not going to bother to address it merely to respond to your ignorant prejudice. The less you know the better, as far as I am concerned. >What *is* the Linux user profile, and how did you arrive at your >conclusions? Did you take a survey? > >How do you measure concern, to know when it's "excessive" ? Is there >a metric for this? Oh, my dear sir, my dear sir... What a telling point! >Thanks in advance, > >Hope this helps, Heh. Do you, indeed? Never heard of the word "hypocrisy", I suppose? I have already discribed you in my paragraph commencing "There is an attitude of mind...". I didn't say that poor grasp of their native language and disgusting uncouthness were features of the class, because I do them the courtesy of thinking that is not true in general. But you illustrate well the strained attempt at ridicule that predictably appears from this "marketing" subculture when they are absolutely bereft of any rational argument. You want to come out with some razzle-dazzle but you realise that the game's up, and you absolutely haven't got a feather to fly with. Hope this helps. Sure I do.