Text 563, 70 rader
Skriven 2006-07-05 20:00:00 av Sniper (276.dove-nix)
    Kommentar till text 537 av Screwball (250.dove-nix)
Ärende: Re: PCLinuxOS
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-=> Screwball wrote to Belly <=-

 >   Re: Re: PCLinuxOS
 >   By: Screwball to Belly on Fri Jun 30 2006 10:10 pm
 >
 >  >  > I decided that I enjoyed eating much more than I enjoyed hating MS.
 >  >  >
 >  > It's not a matter of enjoyment, dealing with MS is just such a pain in
 Sc> the
 >  > butt, I've done it before with more than one business.
 >  > I taught my son how to use Linux - Mandrake 9.1 at first, after he used
 Sc> it
 >  > awhile(he was only 12 at the time) he wouldn't go on-line with Windows at
 > al
 >  > unless his school work required it. Even when he crashed Linux when I
 > wasn't
 >  > there he would just pop the install cd in and reboot to re-install it. He
 > on
 >  > used Windows off-line to play his games.
 >
 > You misunderstood what I said.  It boils down to this:
 >
 > 1. avoid the demand from customers for MS products. Be an idealist. Go
 Sc> broke.
 > 2. Go with it. Milk it. Sell it. Support it. Make money.
 >
 > I chose option 2.  I don't like them or their products, but I do like
 Sc> eating.
 >
 Sc> No, I didn't misunderstand, too bad for you. As long as I have other
 Sc> options of
 Sc>  earning money I will choose other options than to kiss MS ass. I know
 Sc> most people don't have a choice but I do.

I'm not sure why your so high and mighty over this.  I personally do what
the customer wants.  In that frame, if the customer could possibly use
Linux I push in that market, but overall, my customers are already
familiar with MS products, hence we go that direction.  Now, don't get me
wrong here... The clients that have gone with Linux, are happy, and there
are a whole bunch of specific problems they encounter, which keeps me in
business, and as we all know, there are a bunch of problems with MS
products, and this keeps me in a much better financial level.  

Personally, if you keep waving your Linux sword, your not going to get
very far.  

I've recently been contacted by one of my clients about Mac's, for which I
have almost zero knowledge, but, I'm willing to learn!  I've never been a
Mac/Apple fan, so, I'll have to swallow my pride and become more
familiar/knowledgable, although in recent news I've read about the
Mac/Linux connection, which will benifit me here.  

In your case, you really need to understand your customers, there knowlege
levels, there comfort levels and remember the old adage... the customer is
always right.  Otherwise, your going to be a very short lived business.

Oh and one last thing, notice the below tag line and the version/type of
offline mail program I'm using before you reply.  :)

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