Linux killer!

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 10:50 -0600, STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:
> > ----
> > Anticipation that a Linux Desktop is a easy swap replacement 
> > for Windows
> > Desktop is simply a matter of expectations. It is what it is and where
> > it is any given place in time. Railing here on this list is the
> > equivalent to pissing in the wind.
> > 
> > The thread began with issues relating to proprietary software using
> > proprietary codecs and if more people were using Linux, there would be
> > more pressure to adopt codecs that Linux users could utilize without
> > doing technical tango.
> > 
> As you said, "It is what it is" and that seems to apply to the 
> proprietary codecs also.  The mplayer developers have done a marvelous
> job integrating the windows codecs.  Searching out this information
> is non-trivial (without some luck) and difficult for the uninitiated.
> This mailing list has a pretty good cross section of current Fedora users
> and has some extremely intelligent and knowledgeable people on it.
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It's a moving target. Microsoft has released WMP v 10 and has changed
some things - as those who are committed to keeping proprietary lock-in
are wont to do.
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> 
> It may well be that since software installation does and should require
> some sort of administrative account (eg. root) and putting the root
> account in the hands of the uneducated can be a terrible thing, a 
> different model is needed to further encroach upon Windows.
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people can learn. It happens all of the time. I myself am not invested
in converting the masses to Linux, when Linux is ready for them and they
are ready for Linux, they will find each other.

Craig


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