| William H. Magill on 28 Feb 2004 23:14:02 -0000 |
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On 27 Feb, 2004, at 19:27, W. Chris Shank wrote: I think that was the same article that was in the Philly inquirer last His email address is usually in one of the columns... although of late it appears to be that of a secretarial pool. Fried is your basic "Microsoft Bigot." He writes for the masses, who, he believes, only ever understand Microsoft. (He himself, however is actually much more computer literate than that.) He KNOWS (as should most everyone on this list) that "J.Q.Public" has never heard of Mailing Lists or LUGs or anything of the sort. Their interface to the Internet is solely whatever they get from Verizon, Comecast or whoever /whatever their ISP happens to package for them. Personally, I disagree with his approach and have told him so in the past. But he writes what his editors want. He gets 50-100 questions a week about Microsoft stuff -- but only gets one or two a MONTH on Linux or Mac ... we all know why, but the point is -- his editors see those 50-100 questions about Microsoft and say, "Write about that." I must have tossed the column about Xandros as I can't find it, (and Xandros doesn't have it on their website) but I would guess that his comment about support was intended for them... I assume the $2.99 a minute charge is their charge. The implication being that whoever answered their support line, could not resolve whatever he had problems with. The problem I have with Xandros is that it has a very limited definition of "Linux." It doesn't run on Alpha Linux ... or at least there is nothing on their website to imply that it runs on anything other than something that would run a Microsoft OS. And I know from past experience that when vendors proclaim "Linux" -- they only mean Wintel based Linux. If they don't explicitly state support for other architectures, they don't support it. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard - 768 Meg # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg]- Tru64 5.1a # XP1000 - [Alpha EV6] magill@mcgillsociety.org magill@acm.org magill@mac.com ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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