RE: Linux killer!
From: Craig White (craigwhite_at_azapple.com)
Date: 10/31/05
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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:13:43 -0700
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 10:50 -0600, STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:
> > ----
> > Anticipation that a Linux Desktop is a easy swap replacement
> > for Windows
> > Desktop is simply a matter of expectations. It is what it is and where
> > it is any given place in time. Railing here on this list is the
> > equivalent to pissing in the wind.
> >
> > The thread began with issues relating to proprietary software using
> > proprietary codecs and if more people were using Linux, there would be
> > more pressure to adopt codecs that Linux users could utilize without
> > doing technical tango.
> >
> As you said, "It is what it is" and that seems to apply to the
> proprietary codecs also. The mplayer developers have done a marvelous
> job integrating the windows codecs. Searching out this information
> is non-trivial (without some luck) and difficult for the uninitiated.
> This mailing list has a pretty good cross section of current Fedora users
> and has some extremely intelligent and knowledgeable people on it.
---- It's a moving target. Microsoft has released WMP v 10 and has changed some things - as those who are committed to keeping proprietary lock-in are wont to do. ---- > > It may well be that since software installation does and should require > some sort of administrative account (eg. root) and putting the root > account in the hands of the uneducated can be a terrible thing, a > different model is needed to further encroach upon Windows. ---- people can learn. It happens all of the time. I myself am not invested in converting the masses to Linux, when Linux is ready for them and they are ready for Linux, they will find each other. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
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