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Re: [LUG] Accessing Linux Drives from Windows (OT)
On 15/08/05, Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:19:06 +0100
Ben Goodger wrote:
> Unfortunately, until Linux can run Photoshop, Premiere et al it will be most
> difficult for the majority of people to use it. I for one am not content
> with Rhythmbox, I would prefer to stick with the real iTunes.
I would be supremely surprised if "the majority of people" that have PCs at home *use* Photoshop or Premiere. They may well have it on their systems, but I would suggest that the functions they use on these products have already been implemented in Free Software projects... I agree that many project could do with a little spit and shine though.
And as for iTunes... have you told Apple? I am guessing that if iTunes was available for Linux you would be happy to use it on Linux? If people don't tell them (Apple) then they won't know.
Grant.
Of course I would be willing to use iTunes on Linux, and certainly would love to use Linux 24/7. But, there is the issue also of "being used" to things, Microsoft's Get The FUD campaign, the "Linux = UNIX = ancient, cryptic" mentality, the fact that losts of people require such Adobe apps to make a living, etc etc. Without these and a million other factors, I am sure that everyone would use Linux. But... I was going to install SUSE on a client's computer. She called me the other day and said that ActNow had been round and told her (as good as) that Thunderbird and Gmail were deleting her emails or something like it; and my threat to install Linux were scaring Windows so much it couldn't function properly. The poor cow believed them, because they are The People Who Give Me Money = The Professionals; it is this sort of thing which is really going to hold back Linux, the people who are unable to comprehend the existence of something other than Outlook Express 6, and therefore spread this rubbish.
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Ben Goodger
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