On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 03/22/2013 03:44 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: >> >> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On 03/21/2013 11:29 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Sadly enough, most people use computers to consume and not produce, >>>> and out of those who do produce, a large majority only needs a >>>> browser. >>> >>> >>> >>> How do you produce with a browser? >>> >> >> Are you serious? >> > > Yes. Do you expect authors, as an example, to do all their writing in a browser? Do you expect lawyers to compose their briefs and court documents in a browser? How about accountants? How about programmers, graphic artists and musicians? The question isn't am I serious, but have you really given any thought to your position? Two things: A. At least in my experience, the software our lawyers, accountants and insurance people is mostly web-based with locally installed Microsoft Word or Excel (Both are slowly gaining a credible web-based alternative such as Office 365, Google Docs, etc). B. As I said before, I doubt that I'll be replacing vi with firefox and c/c++ with JS. I assume the same will be true for programmers, musicians, graphics artist and other "heavy" users. However, please keep in mind that we are a minority. Most people (both at home and at work) only use the computer to exchange text information (E.g. mails, documents, accounting information, fill forms, etc) and light multimedia files - in which case, the move toward web-based-only software is -well- under way. C. You seem to misunderstand "my position". I'm far from being in love with the idea of cloud computing, and you'll have prey the desktop computer out of my cold dead hands. *However*, whether I, as an individual likes this "advancement" is beside the point. The movement toward web-based computing is here, and there's nothing any of us can do to stop it. D. Take a second to consider the web-mail vs. locally installed client split 10 years ago and today. 10 years ago, a vast majority of the mail traffic was POP3 and IMAP, today the tides have turned, and the most of the mail traffic is either business (Exchange, which again, is slowly being phased out in-favor of outlook.com) or web-based. - Gilboa -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
