<OT> A bad day in Redmond

[Kurt Wall]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 07:11:19AM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> Linux is still not ready for the mass market. Mossberg
> in the WSJ has a review of Ubuntu preinstalled on a Dell
> laptopo. He noted that too much stuff on it didn't work
> out of the box to recommend it to the average user. The
> extra cost of Vista over Ubuntu was $109, for laptops
> costing about $1400. MS Office would cost even more, but,
> you can run (like I do) OpenOffice on windows now.

Mossberg is hardly the impartial observer, however. And, candidly, just
because Mossberg or the WSJ says it, doesn't make it so. More to the
point, though, so what? The underlying assumption is that a computer
interface has to be dumbed down in order to be accepted. That's just
patently a crock of shit. Finally, this is the same refrain you've
uttered as long as you've been on linux-users and its predecessor
lists. I think I got it one of the first 100 times you said it, so we
can we just move on to a different subject now?

Kurt
-- 
Someone whom you reject today, will reject you tomorrow.