Linux Needs to be "House" Trained. Not. | Linux Today

Linux Needs to be “House” Trained. Not.

Written By
KH
Ken Hess
Aug 5, 2009

[ Thanks to Ken Hess
for this link. ]

“There’s no need to convert the masses to Linux. Let
them flounder and complain and pay you to fix their systems. Why
fight it? If they buy into a Microsoft system and need you to fix
it, you can charge them. On the other hand, if you convert them to
Linux, you’ll have to fix their system free of charge for the rest
of your life because you converted them to it.

“Linux is too complex for Joe and Mary User and that’s as it
should be. You wouldn’t try to convert them to partial differential
calculus just because you find it so fascinating, now would
you?”

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KH

Ken Hess

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