{"id":707,"date":"2003-08-22T11:59:28","date_gmt":"2003-08-22T15:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=707"},"modified":"2003-08-22T11:59:28","modified_gmt":"2003-08-22T15:59:28","slug":"a-sense-of-proportion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"A sense of proportion"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a (good and interesting) story on Cnet<\/a> about a man who makes the best guitar strings in the world, and switched to Linux after being busted by the BSA.<\/span> It wasn’t the money he minded; it was the subsequent public humiliation, and the fact that his crimes were entirely inadvertent. All he had done was to change the ownership of computers without wiping the hard disks.<\/p>\n\nThere are a couple of fine, counter-intuitive points. One is that Linux, whatever is better than Windows if you want to run your office like a chicken battery:

If you put a bunch of stuff on people’s desktops they don’t need to do their job, chances are they’re going to use it. I don’t have that problem. If all you need is word processing, that’s all you’re going to have on your desktop, a word processor. It’s not going to have Paint or PowerPoint. I tell you what, our hits to eBay went down greatly when not everybody had a Web browser. For somebody whose job is filling out forms all day, invoicing and exporting, why do they need a Web browser? The idea that if you have 2,000 terminals they all have to have a Web browser, that’s crazy. It just creates distractions. <\/blockquote>\n\n

But the great line was a throway at the end: Microsoft is a growing business with $49 billion in the bank. What do they care about me?<\/span> That should be the marketing line for SuSE and OOo.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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