Re: [seul-edu]why switch ? ( was Speech Recognition for Linux)

[jm <giem@free.fr>]

At 20:32 17/05/00 -0500, Kevin Brown wrote:

>Right now, the Linux desktops (KDE and GNOME) are quite equivelent to
>Windows. But really, why switch when they are about the same to get around
>in.

not to start a "My OS is better than yours" flamewar here but,

err Blue Screen of Death ?
err multi user ?
err Source Availability ?
err Don't want something, Don't have product forcing me to install it ?

and I don't talk about the "price"... when in a school the price of 
software could have bought you two more PC, then you think the price is 
important too.

I think paperclip and voice rec are great. Just my idea of a computer is 
not a "typewriter" or a "game console".
A computer is supposed to have the user, any user, be able to "create" 
something with it.

I guess a reason to move from win9x to Linux would be something like 
"Hypercard" and "mac paint" when the mac started...

I don't really think there a zillions of people liking the paperclip and 
enjoying Office because of it.
Because as soon as you NEED "him", and ask "him" a question and that the 
answer is tremendously not adequate, and the help file is just plain old 
technical blabla... then you realize, as you wrote that the paperclip is 
just "to have some fun 5 minutes".

but I might be wrong.
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