Re: I hope the suSE team can read this!

From: Wood Co (Really_at_not.com)
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 06:57:04 GMT

Jeremiah D. Powell wrote:

> Synchrodude wrote:
>
>> Amnon Feiner wrote:
>>
>>> This why you have to work harder;
>>>
>>> Wood Contour Inc.
>>> My catalog for Germany is in German, for the USA in English...
>>
>>
>> How big is the book that comes with windows again?
>>
> 129 pages [0].
>
> The game is called catch up. Commercial distributors of Linux are still
> playing this game in many places. Whether it be catching up to M$, BSD,
> or Apple, many of these cultures/corporations have created very good
> things that Linux can use to  great advantage.
>
> I run Linux professionally as a sysadmin for a small company. I was once
> the president of my University's LUG.
>
> I bought boxed sets of SuSE for the manuals, as well as the CD's. You
> downloaded yours for free? Well, I'm happy for you. Go find a printer.
>
> Nothing online will help you when you can't get a prompt up[1]. And dead
> trees are more interesting in the lavatory than laptops that make your
> knees blisteringly hot.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jeremiah
>
> [0]I brought a used laptop from a friend of a friend. I requested the CD's
> and License for the Windows 98 that came with the laptop. It included a
> 129 page booklet on how to use Windows 98. 129 pages included
> screenshots,
> a dictionary, beginners and advanced sections. This is not counting the
> index or EULA.
>
> [1] Any other prompt than a non-networked console. With no man pages yet
> installed. Don't belive it happens? Just mention 'bad drive geometry'
> and 'kernel panic' in the appropriately dark sections of alt.os.linux

Seems like both you missed the point. I do not think he ever asked for 128
page manual, but basic instructions. Linux won our heart for many reasons,
not all valid (many many missing apps we had in Windows), and it should be
end user oriented if we want to beat the beast. For example, my version was
purchased from SuSE including the mentioned Wine Rack. My annual donations
to the community including GPL are sizable, but it is not the point. The
point is that when one is trying to beat an opponent, you try to be better
then him, and if imitation is required, so will it be. It seems that every
time someone dares to criticize the perfection of Linux (or not)then you
get the ?But Windows?. Well, since most of us no longer care about
Windows, some of us are no longer interested in knowing what is going on
there, we already do... It is the little stupid things that made it so
popular, and they can be avoided by being a little smarter but not
ignorant.

Shalom, Salam, what ever 

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