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On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 12:34:04 -0500, Jerry Lynn Kreps <jlkreps@navix.net> wrote:
>Jason Clifford Wrote:
>> Companies that provide commercial solutions which run on free software
>> are doing nothing wrong. They are not in breach of the GPL or any other
>> licence.
>> 
>> Their support is one of the factors that will lead many more people to
>> use Linux and Open Source/Free software.
>> 
>> The simple truth here is that most people do NOT use a computer simply
>> to play with a nice OS. They use it as a tool to run their prefered
>> applications many of which are commercial.

	A crap OS can rather get in the way of using those nice
	spiffy commercial applications and waste your time with
	system cleanup that one is simply not subjected to on 
	more serious platforms. 

>
>Exactly!
>I spend all day at work in the Win95 environment (64MB on a P233 with
>several GB of HD) writing code with VFP5.0a on a Novell 4.x network. 
>Friday afternoon, for example, my workstation crashed twice.  I have to
>put up with that at work.  I have passed out CD's with RH5.0 on them
>and  convinced the IS support staff to install a RH 5.1 on a 486 and
>stick it on the net. That was on August 9th, and it hasn't crashed yet,
>even though we've had the NT server go down, the mainframe go down
>twice, and Novell has barfed a lung on a couple of servers.  Maybe we'll
>replace the NT server with Linux so our version control software won't
>run so  slowly.  I gave the head of pgmming my book on "Learning Linux
>in 24 hrs", along with it's copy of RH5.0.  And, several IS support
>people and programmers have asked If I would burn a copy of RH 5.1 for
>them.  I will.  We are all tired of the unstability and slow speed.
>At home, I don't have to take that crap.  My Win95 crashed on May 8th
>and forced a complete reinstall on my HD.  I started looking for an
>alternative OS.  I had looked at Linux back in 1994 (or so) and found it
>limited.  But, after browsing the "Learn Linux in 24 hours" book in the
>book store I decided to give it a try.  Since May 9th Linux has been my
>OS of choice.  I have also installed and tried RH 5.1  When the SuSE 5.3
>distribution arrived I cleaned my HD and installed it.  What a beauty! 
>The KDE 1.0 is BETTER than Win95 or 98.  The KFM is a nice little
>browser (say goodbye to Opera 3.2) for quick looks and downloads but I
>settled on the Netscape 4.05 communciator that came with SuSE 5.3
>because it has a nice email and newsgroup package integrated  together. 
>(I used the KDE email and newgroup stuff for several months without
>problems, but KFM lacks a little when you hit websites with java scripts
>or frames.).  I spend 99+% of my time in SuSE 5.3 and when a good
>substitute for Quicken comes out Win95 will be history at my home
>office.
>Why do I say this?  Because productivity is the name of the game.  I am
>an old DOS command liner with the best of them, BUT it is a lot easier
>to point and click do some stuff (don't send me lessons on scripts)  
>And, that is why I will BUY a copy of NETSCAPE and I will BUY a copy of
>StarOffice 5.0, even though I can download them free!  To show my
>appreciation for their stance opensource (I know SO 5.0 is not
>opensource but it is the best office suite on Linux).  I am even going
>to show my support for the Linux kernal group by sending a donation
>their way.  How about the rest of you who want to take and take and take
>without returning something to the pot?
>Jerry


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