Comments on: Everything in threes

By: So long, old friend « Motho ke motho ka botho

So long, old friend « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:49:59 +0000

[...] Its presence in my “stable” was never called into question until a few weeks ago, when that Inspiron 600m arrived. The 600m never really had a chance of displacing the 8000; my emotional attachment to the incumbent underscored the shortcomings in the 600m, and contributed to finding its new home with my neighbor. [...]

By: The Open Sourcerer

The Open Sourcerer — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:08:28 +0000

There are *lots” of different phones. People don’t get confused by that. There are lots of different cars, televisions, Microwaves… The list is virtually endless. Except for one Monopoly – Microsoft.

It is only that the masses do not realise there are alternatives. Confusion is not the problem. Ignorance and market force driven by illegal anti-competitive practices is.

Fortunately, the netbook market is continuing to expand the options available and will, in my opinion, be the catalyst to opening the eyes of a naive population.

The Open Sourcerer

By: ArmorNick

ArmorNick — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:51:20 +0000

Like one poster in the thead said, the main problem is ignorance. Most people just don’t know it. Add to that Microsoft’s patent game and the fact that there isn’t ‘one linux’, and people get confused. People don’t like to get confused.

By: Trent

Trent — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:44:07 +0000

It’s one more nail in the coffin for Microsoft, and one more example for the Windows muckrakers who still insist, years after Ubuntu stormed the OS landscape, that casual desktop users can’t find a home with Linux. That argument is so tired, it doesn’t even bear refuting.

Hah. I laugh at such claims. As you may or may not have read on my own blog, I recently brought my non-techie Aunt Jean into the Ubuntu fold with basically about a half hour's worth of training and a little bit of "how do I?" Q&A over the phone, and she's been running just fine. If Jean can do without Windows on her computer on a day-to-day basis, I think anyone can.