[H-GEN] Re: Unix vs NT [long; both informative and then religious]

[Doug Young]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs "Doug Young" <dougy at gargoyle.apana.org.au>)


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From: James C. McPherson <James.McPherson at mq.edu.au>
To: <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Cc: <rees.griffiths at mq.edu.au>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Re: Unix vs NT [long; both informative and then
religious]


> (Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs "James C. McPherson"
<James.McPherson at mq.edu.au
>
I don't know about the others on
> this list but I've been working with various unices since 1990

Thats the point exactly ..... what  about the thousands of people trying to
get somewhere with *nix who haven't had nine years experience???

Whether or not the faithful are prepared to accept the fact or not .....
thanks to the arch enemy of all things *nix, a bunch of regular people can
now have computers they can use without the pre-requisite of three degrees,
and it can hardly be contested that there are one or three more Microsof t /
AppleMac operating systems out there than there are *nix ones. If a few of
these people are, for one reason or other, desirous of looking at
alternatives to the dreaded Microsoft ...... why do the "experts" feel its
essential to make the transition for these newbies as difficult as humanly
possible ?? Not everyone has the interest, need, or desire to become a
maestro in *nix ...... some of us just want to know enough to get the job
done, at least in the immediate future.


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