Re: [plug] Update to training manual "Introduction

[David Buddrige <david.buddrige@mitswa.com.au>]

Thanks for the suggestions... I guess I did get on a bit of <rant> last
night.. 8-)

Itent was (Briefly) to summarise the benefits of oss over proprietary
stuff... trying to explain how the difference in motivation leads (in
this particular instance) to differences in end-product and in support
for existing software... and that results of motivatins behind oss are
greater than ust producing free software... maybe it's not relevant to
this manual... will look at re-wording or cropping as appropriate... 8-)

cheers

Dave... 8-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Campbell [SMTP:campbell@torque.net]
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> dbuddridge@ozemail.com.au
> Subject:      (Fwd) Re: [plug] Update to training manual "Introduction
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> Bounced off the PLUG mailing list, second attempt...
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> From:                 "David Campbell" <campbell@torque.net>
> To:                   plug@linux.org.au
> Date sent:            Fri, 22 Jan 1999 07:21:15 +0800
> Subject:              Re: [plug] Update to training manual
> "Introduction to Computers and Linux" as of  21/1/1999
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> Date sent:            Thu, 21 Jan 1999 22:32:37 +0800
> From:                 David Buddrige <dbuddrige@ozemail.com.au>
> To:                   plug@linux.org.au, computerbank@linux.org.au,
> pcb@greedo.nw.com.au
> Subject:              [plug] Update to training manual "Introduction
> to Computers and Linux" as of 
>       21/1/1999
> Send reply to:        plug@linux.org.au
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Just a note to say that the manual that I am writing: "Introduction
> to
> > Computers and Linux" has been updated as of 21 January, 1999.
> > 
> > You can see the latest version (0.01)at
> > http://www.ozemail.com.au/~dbuddrige/computerbank/doco/
> > 
> > Comments/submissions/pointing out of spelling and technical errors
> and
> > any other suggestions are welcome and encouraged. 8-)
> 
> I suggest a some toning down of the "anti-Microsoft" sentiments,
> preferably removing as 
> many direct references as possible. My first reading of this was some
> political radical 
> has written this... Please avoid the brain washing tatics, I have
> enough of this from 
> Microsoft.
> 
> Example:
> "After a certain time, Microsoft refuses to support it's older
> products - insisting rather,
> that users purchase the later version of their product."
> 
> I would like to remind you that the Linux comunity is very similar in
> the respect of 
> "why are you using Apache 1.01, go to xxx.yyy.net and download the
> latest version". The 
> only difference here is that the upgrades are free.
> 
> Perhaps you should examine the upgrade price of a MS package versus
> the new features 
> that you are going to use, in such light you might find that going
> from MS-Office 95 to 
> MS-Office 97 is not price competitive HOWEVER because other people
> have changed, you 
> are forced to change just so you can read their documents. From my
> experience there is 
> no parallel in the free software world.
> 
> David Campbell
> 
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