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[NMLUG] Re: Re: Re: Linux Advocacy FAQ is NOT Linux Advocacy Maxim (Robert Delahunt) (Steve Milo)
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 05:49 pm, Steve Milo <slavik914@mrbrklyn.com>
wrote:
> In my opinion proprietary software is the bane of society.
>
> Freedom includes being able to produce a product that is far suprerior and
> not being ashamed to tout its significant benefits over a crappy
> 'operating system' (more like an electronic gui environment).
>
> There quite few GPL apps that can do everything Adobe Acrobat and
> Photoshop do.
Sorry, but you're wrong. Take some advanced classes in Adobe software and you
will see what I mean. Acrobat, maybe, but not Creative Suite.
> As far as Dreamweaver goes, there are ways around that.
So are you admitting that there is no replacement?
> I personally avoid any class or course that requires I use a proprietary
> closed source app. It is unavoidable sometimes, I am taking assembly and
> the professor, although does not have any preference per-se.
It's unavoidable, yes, and I'm not saying we have to accept this. However,
anyone who's going to say Linux can do everything Windows can do and visa
versa is incorrect. Granted, technology is moving forward on both sides, so
I'm not saying that eventually they cannot both do the same things.
> She suggests
> we use either TASM or MASM, if only becuause she is familiar with it. She
> also wants the source code, object file printed in the fashion that the
> two apps. MASM is a non-entity as far as I am concerned, I avoid ms
> products like the plague. I simply have no need to use it, ms has
> absolutely *nothing* I need.
That's nice, but not everyone is in your shoes, sadly.
> And quite frankly the greater part of
> society will be that much better off if ms is beaten back into its
> northwest corner of the country.
And that's nice. My opinion is that I like Linux a lot more, and the
community. But remember that some people want community from Linux. If we
degrade that "experience", they will go away. I've met many that switched
Linux distributions, for example, based on their experience in the channel on
FreeNode that was specifically for that distribution, etc. I'm not saying
that they were right, but I'm pointing out that it happens.
> Steve M
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