[NTLUG:Discuss] re: XP not OS

[Fred James]

Try to help people where you can.  I have used Linux exclusively for my 
desktop for several years, in a Microsoft centric corporate world.  
Lately the corporation has added a time keeper, and a third party web 
conference service, to the mix, both of which are strictly MS IE 
dependent.  So far I have avoided their Lotus Notes and Sametime, and 
now hope is on the horizon - it looks promising that corporate might 
support these two in browsers before I might be forced to use them.  
Otherwise, I have no regrets with Linux and OOo.

Fred wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 at 19:26:35 sfreader at sbcglobal.net wrote:
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>>Thus, Microsoft will no longer be selling operating systems,
>>as far as I can tell.  They have a couple of products called
>>XP, but those are just spyware and DRM platforms with
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>limited
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>>OS capability.  I don't think it would be fair to call them
>>operating systems. <snip>  
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>>Ralph Green, Jr.   <severian at pobox.com>
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>Ralph:
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>Generally I agree with you, but re: XP --
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>OS or not, it is a fact of life for a helluva lot more people
>than those running open source. I wish for, but will never
>see, the day when the apps that I have to run in my business
>work with Linux. Until that far-off time I am stuck with XP,
>or some future M$ offering.
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>All of my Unix-inspired snootiness will not change that, only
>the concerted effort by those coders out there who can make
>codeweavers, wine or cedega really work. Only when the two
>(linux and windows apps) can truly work togother will linux
>appeal to the masses. Until then XP (or some other variant)
>will rule and linux will be a sideshow. M$ ain't just going
>to roll over and play dead while yappy-dog linux bites at
>its heels. Neither will software houses produce decent apps
>without a profit motive.
>
>Fred
>Unix since '87
>Linux since RH5.2
>Windows since 3.0
>Apple since '80 (but not long after!)
>CP/M, MP/M, DOS and even a little VMS
>Still waiting for a decent system to come along.
>
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