Isn't it sad that macroslop has dominated the gui os market for IBM compatibles for only 7 years or so, and people are acting as if it had been the major os for the last 200 years? Greg On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 01:27:29PM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hi. Well, I certainly feel if any operating system can remove or cut into > Microsoft's share it will be Linux, but it will take a while. > > It's all about conditioning. People for years have grown use to Microsoft's > pile of junk, and it takes a while to remove previous ideas and opinions. It > also takes other companies willingness to port existing apps to Linux. Apps > such as Adobe's Photo Sweit, MS Office, and so on are conciddred Windows > flag ship applications and it depends on a willingness to switch to other > software. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
