[aclug-L] Re: Linux as an alternative to a Windows desktop

["Jonathan Hall" <flimzy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Friday 13 December 2002 02:00 pm, you wrote:
> > Even the Linux software that is "easy" to install in a user's
> > home directory is many times more difficult to install than your
> > average Windows application which requires nothing more than
> > hitting "Next" a few times after the installer is automatically
> > started.
> > If you have a Linux app with an easy installer (OpenOffice has a
> > nice one), you still have to train the user how to unpack and
> > execute the installer.  Not an impossible task by any means, but
> > more difficult than in a Windows environment.
>
>  Things change, times change, people change.
>
> The one thing that does not change:
>  Most people like freedom because you can
> participate  in changing things and/or observe the change.
>  The Linux Kernel and Open Source Code are not
> standing still and never will because machine code
> is evolving like human speech languages.
>  It's FREEDOM at its best.

What exactly does that have to do with the topic at hand, though? :)

But since we're on the topic of unrelated topics...  It's interesting to
note that spoken human languages tend to become less complex over time,
whereas computing technology becomes more complex.

-- Jonathan



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