[rescue] Sun / Linux LX50 -Rebuttal

[Charles J. Killian]

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Greg,

Your point is well taken.

However,

I think that we all have to be very careful here.  You, I, and
everyone else on this list are techies.  Things that matter to us are
of no consequence to others.  Most everyone I know simply care that
they can get their daily work done.

I agree that from a pure technical view, and maybe politically, the
average user of a PC/Windows box is getting screwed, blued, and
tattooed.  OTOH, if documents get typed, emailed, printed or whatever
successfully most folks simply do not give a rat's behind how, or if
the technology is old, broken, bent or whatever.

The best example I can give is the family car.  Other than a few
purists, and I am one, most folks do not care if they have the latest
Burpfire 2000.  All they want to do is get in, turn the key, and go
to where they want to go.  The same holds for users of computers, and
most other things too.  Frankly, most users of computers would do
well with a Pentium running at 266 mhz running Windows 98 (gawd, that
is ugly!).  All they have and want is a glorified typewriter.

Cheers,

C...

Charles J. Killian	
Project Engineer
Domain Systems, Inc.

charles.killian at domainsi.com	
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From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Greg A. Woods
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:46
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [rescue] Sun / Linux LX50


[ On Thursday, September 19, 2002 at 08:34:46 (-0600), Charles J.
Killian wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: [rescue] Sun / Linux LX50
>
> PCs/Windows is not an inherently bad solution... for certain
> things.  Many times millions of workstations prove that.

That's not a valid conclusion.  There is no proof there -- those
millions of users are mostly blind to, and blinded by, the
technology.
Those millions of users are still getting raped for no good reason,
and
while at the same time their masses are holding everyone up w.r.t.
the
many improvements in technology which would make use of computers
more
efficient and less costly, they are also paying over and over again
for
upgrades that do not solve any of their real problems and which do
not
bring along any of those improvements we should all have had decades
ago.  Trillions of dollars have been wasted on unnecessary upgrades
of
PCs in the USA alone, never mind the whole world, and things have
gotten
worse not better.

(most everything else you said though I agree with!  :-)

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