Re: [News] Google Ridicules Windows, Microsoft TCO Studies
- Subject: Re: [News] Google Ridicules Windows, Microsoft TCO Studies
- From: "Oliver Wong" <owong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:37:41 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
- Organization: GlobeTrotter
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"Mark Kent" <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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However, this is a linux advocacy group, not a windows advocacy group,
and there are several windows advocacy groups where Mr Quark and his ilk
could post if they wanted to. The fact that they do not is quite
telling, in my view, although the same old recycled FUD is moreso.
I can't speak for Quark, but I can explain why I post here despite the
fact that I consider myself a Windows advocate on this group[*].
As I've mentioned in another thread, what brought me to COLA were the
crosspostings "asj" made to the comp.lang.java.advocacy groups. What made me
stay were Roy's [News] postings and the occasional interesting threads that
pop up around them. I want people to advocate Linux to me precisely because
I don't know very much about Linux. I want to hear about all the great
things that can be done with Linux.
I'm not so interested in the Windows advocacy newsgroups for two
reasons:
(1) I know a lot about Windows, so I don't expect to learn very much new
there.
(2) I don't think Windows is all that great. Certainly not great enough
to spend my energy advocating it.
This also explains why I do post on comp.lang.java.advocacy: I do think
Java is great enough to be worth advocating.
So you see, there are two (non-trollish) roles for posters on this
newsgroup: The people who are advocating, and the people being advocated to.
Not everybody is of the former.
- Oliver
[*] I qualified my claim with "on this group" because I do consider myself
to be a Linux advocate in other contexts. Amongst my friends and family, I
am the heaviest user of Linux, having tried it out a few years ago, and of
open source software, which I use regularly both at home and at work. I'm
trying to convince the non-game players that there really isn't any reason
not to give Linux a try. I'm trying to convince others that security through
obscurity is a bad idea, and open source software tends to be more secure.
I've managed to get a lot of people to switch to Firefox from IE. But
obviously, here on this newsgroup, you people probably know a whole lot more
about Linux than I do, so I don't consider myself a Linux advocate *here*.
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