Re: CRIME Perspective on Criticisms leveled at Microsoft

From: Eric Harrison (eharrison@private)
Date: Wed Apr 10 2002 - 23:32:24 PDT

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    On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Seth Arnold wrote:
    >On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:30:37PM -0700, Crispin Cowan wrote:
    >> I think you are misconstruing what I was saying. I know that UNIX is 
    >> waaay too difficult for your mom/receptionist/CEO to use.
    >
    >As an aside, every time anyone makes this claim, I like to point out
    >that the original use of Unix[1] was actually secretaries writing
    >documents. I hope that we, as a species, haven't lost our adaptability
    >to new techniques, or even old techniques. :)
    
    I'm sure Apple would disagree that UNIX is waay to difficult for a mom/
    receptionist/CEO to use.
    
    
    One of my little pet projects (www.k12ltsp.org) is to putting Linux desktops
    into schools. Our success rate is simply unbelievable. If I can get teachers
    to install, configure, and use Linux systems without hand-holding or technical
    support, it obviously can't be too difficult ;-)
    
    -Eric
    



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