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In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.950926174717.16026A-100000@howard>,
Patrick O'Neil  <patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu> wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Sep 1995 xenon@deltanet.com wrote:
>
>> Bah. Who needs MS products on a Linux box? Doesn't that defeat the
>> purpose? I can see it now..."Get Word version 9.8 for Linux and
>> receive GNU bundled with it." No thanks. Linux users *write* apps. 
>[...]
>
>And this is precisely why it will never be a mainstream, generally 
>accepted OS...MOST computer users do not program.  They buy their box to 
>run already created programs.  A businessperson has no time, nor any 
>desire to fight code to produce a simple business related app.  A 
>scientist needs to spend time doing science, NOT at the computer writing 
>and debugging code for a potential sci-app.  A Joe Blo wants to run a 
>word processor or play a game, NOT spend a year or more creating one from 
>scratch. 
>
>Good for the people who like to write software apps for the people who 
>actually need them...but they are a small group.  The rest of the 
>computer users need to USE...and this eliminates Linux or Unix from 
>general use.  
>
Well, I'm not a real hot programmer myself, and have never had to
write apps for my Linux box (well unless you count my programming
assignments :-))... the point is that it's more the administration
and setup that usually scares off new users, and the dramatic
rethinking process that goes on when moving from DOS to Unix.

Jason Garman / garman@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov