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Skriven 2006-07-10 22:34:00 av Sniper (302.dove-nix)
    Kommentar till text 565 av Screwball (278.dove-nix)
Ärende: Re: PCLinuxOS
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-=> Screwball wrote to Sniper <=-

 >  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.
 >

 Sc> What sword? I personally like DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD. The kiss ass
 Sc> comment was just a figure of speech for me and applies to no-one but
 Sc> me.

Never got into the BSD world... ran FreeBSD for a bit to learn it, and
found it interesting, but personally don't have a use for it other than
that.  I perfer Linux, and find it easier to work with.

 > 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.
 >

 Sc> Good system, but runs the Darwin version of FreeBSD not Linux (OSX).

Quite true... just checking to see if you did.  :)

 > 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.
 >

 Sc> No sh*t, sherlock, I help teach people/kids about Linux,MS Windows,
 Sc> BSD.

And?  I've been doing that and more for a long time now.  I guess you
think I'm a youngster or something...  Newsflash...  My first
personal computer was a Timex Sinclair.  :)

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

 Sc> Yeah, I noticed, and?

Just making sure you understand I'm not a newbie/novice in the computer
world.   I run Debian and Slackware Linux for my primary
computers...  Check out http://www.computerrooms.org and look for the
2006 index, and scroll down to the Valdosta Ga. entry for an glimps of
what I have here.  :)

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