[olug] How One Microsoft User Made The Switch To Open Source

[Jay Swackhamer]

What's your Microsoft Un-productivity Index (MUI)?
Another user's switch.........
http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT8942921227.html



> You don't have to start a technical career to dislike M$.
> Any average user can tell you about the blue screen of death.
>
> Thom
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Lassek" <hayai2 at cox.net>
> To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 4:34 PM
> Subject: RE: [olug] How One Microsoft User Made The Switch To Open Source
>
>
>> You know what? I have heard someone say that _every_single_time_
>> Microsoft releases a new iteration of Windows. And every time it's just
>> same old, same old. I'm just going to wait until The Morning After and
>> make up my mind then. I'm not expecting to be pleasantly surprised.
>>
>> I already sound like a jaded unix geek and I havn't even technically
>> begun my career yet. Not a good sign ;)
>>
>> On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 08:03, Trent Melcher wrote:
>> > Yes I believe your right, If you are a MS customer you probably have
> paid
>> > for it a couple times over.
>> >
>> > I was actually impressed with the new OS, granted MS did put on the
> show, so
>> > yes they are going to toot their horn about there product.  But, IMHO
>> I
>> > think they have finally had a wake up call and a real kick in the ass
>> to
> put
>> > a product out there that is worth something, I mean the benchmarks
>> they
>> > showed (again their stats so take it as you will) were so out there,
> what
>> > did they do throw all their current OS's out the window and do a total
>> > rewrite?
>> >
>> > It has tempted me a little to load it up and check it out.
>> >
>> > Trent
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org]On Behalf Of
>> > IrishMASMS
>> > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 10:18 PM
>> > To: tmelcher at trilogytel.com
>> > Cc: olug at olug.org
>> > Subject: RE: [olug] How One Microsoft User Made The Switch To Open
>> > Source
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > <quote who="Trent Melcher">
>> > > ????  Your company had to pay for the W2K3 event today ????  My wife
> and
>> > > I both went and we nor our companies paid a dime.  Our were you
> meaning
>> > > they paid for it by giving you the time off to go?
>> > >
>> > > Trent
>> >
>> > True/yes - they gave me the time to go. No one I know of had to
>> outright
>> > pay M$ to attend their marketing blitz....
>> >
>> > But, did we not all pay for it? Don't we all???? ;)
>> >
>> > --
>> > A: No.
>> > Q: Should I include e-mail quotations after my reply?
>> > =====================================================
>> > An often repeated quote on news.admin.net-abuse.email - <I>"Spam is
>> not
>> > about content, it is about consent".</I>
>> >
>> >
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