Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 10, 2004 06:23 AM
Personal insults and name-calling aside, do you write poetry? Maybe you do, but I certainly don't. Why? It's simply not my area of expertise. Specifically, I can appreciate a poem by Keats, Dickinson, or Donne, but I simply cannot find within me the capability to capture an aspect of beauty in the world and capture it in a few words. As such, I am an reader of poetry, not a writer of it.
Likewise, my mother has no desire to learn even the most basic aspects of computer software design. She couldn't care less; in the mean time, she struggles with how to use Outlook Express. As such, she could care less whether or not a product is open source - she just wants to read e-mail. Yes, she may have to pay for this closed-source program. But, for her, the economic benefits outweigh the costs. She pays a bit of cash, but reaps the benefits of usable e-mail software.
So while Linux advocates preach the benefits of having twenty text editors, ten graphics programs, fifty distributions, and thirty window managers, the rest of us will boot up Windows XP.
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Re:Yeah, damn peeking!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 10, 2004 06:23 AMLikewise, my mother has no desire to learn even the most basic aspects of computer software design. She couldn't care less; in the mean time, she struggles with how to use Outlook Express. As such, she could care less whether or not a product is open source - she just wants to read e-mail. Yes, she may have to pay for this closed-source program. But, for her, the economic benefits outweigh the costs. She pays a bit of cash, but reaps the benefits of usable e-mail software.
So while Linux advocates preach the benefits of having twenty text editors, ten graphics programs, fifty distributions, and thirty window managers, the rest of us will boot up Windows XP.
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