Re: wine useless, open source fails it

From: John-Paul Stewart (jpstewart_at_binaryfoundry.ca)
Date: 11/08/05 

Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:47:12 -0500

alex.gman@gmail.com wrote:
> John-Paul Stewart wrote:
>
>
>>Indeed. This is the third time in a little more than a week that
>>alex.gman@gmail.com has posted trollish material in this very newsgroup
>>(see the threads he started about "Free VMWare Player" and "Windows and
>>Linux DVD-R Incompatibility (Rockridge Extensions?)".
>>
>>He's clearly a Windows fan (which is fine) who has no interest in Linux
>>and hence no business in this newsgroup.
>
>
> What a dumbass. Why would I check out Wine, VMWare, etc.?
>
> I've been using commercial UNIXes since before Linux and all its lying
> zealots even appeared on the scene.

Thank you for the timely demostration of the aforementioned "trollish
material". "Dumbass" and "Linux and all its lying zealots" are nice
examples of the problem.

> Open Office sucks, period. Even Linus Torvalds uses PowerPoint.
> UnImpress from Open Office 2.0 doesn't even support tables for crying
> out loud. The best you can do is insert a Word/Writer document that has
> a table in it. As you can imagine, that's unusuable: you lose all
> control of colors, size etc. - if you resize the fake table, the
> letters get squashed/stretched - how lame is that.

So use PowerPoint (which necessitates Windows) if that makes you happy.
  But a blanket statement that "Linux sucks" on the basis of one app (or
even one user---you) is uncalled for. If PowerPoint or the like is
critical to your work, then Windows may be the best (or only) choice of
OS for *you*. Linux does everything *I* need (and a whole lot more), so
it doesn't suck from my point of view. And that's the point: you're
over-generalizing based on your experience and discounting the fact that
it is more than adequate for many, many people. Linux may suck *for
your needs* but to generalize to "Linux sucks" is stretching it.

Your view of Linux (which you're certainly entitled to have) does not
justify the name calling and derogatory comments you make about Linux
users. That's just plain rude and totally uncalled for.

And then there is the fact that this is not the appropriate forum to
discuss the fact that you think Linux sucks. There are advocacy groups
for that. (Note that it would be equally inapproriate to extoll the
virtues of Linux here. Again, that's what the advocacy groups are for.)
  Pick a more suitable forum.

> If you think Microsoft is paying me to say this, I can get you a great
> deal on the Brooklyn bridge.

I never suggested any such thing. Where did you get that idea?

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