> -=> Screwball wrote to Belly <=-
 > 
 >  >   Re: Re: PCLinuxOS
 >  >   By: Screwball to Belly on Fri Jun 30 2006 10:10 pm
 >  >
 >  >  >  > I decided that I enjoyed eating much more than I
enjoyed hating MS.
 >  >  >  >
 >  >  > It's not a matter of enjoyment, dealing with MS is just
such a pain in
 >  Sc> the
 >  >  > butt, I've done it before with more than one business.
 >  >  > I taught my son how to use Linux - Mandrake 9.1 at first, after he
used
 >  Sc> it
 >  >  > awhile(he was only 12 at the time) he wouldn't go on-line
with Windows
 > at
 >  > al
 >  >  > unless his school work required it. Even when he crashed
Linux when I
 >  > wasn't
 >  >  > there he would just pop the install cd in and reboot to
re-install it.
 > He
 >  > on
 >  >  > used Windows off-line to play his games.
 >  >
 >  > You misunderstood what I said.  It boils down to this:
 >  >
 >  > 1. avoid the demand from customers for MS products. Be an idealist. Go
 >  Sc> broke.
 >  > 2. Go with it. Milk it. Sell it. Support it. Make money.
 >  >
 >  > I chose option 2.  I don't like them or their products, but I do like
 >  Sc> eating.
 >  >
 >  Sc> No, I didn't misunderstand, too bad for you. As long as I have other
 >  Sc> options of
 >  Sc>  earning money I will choose other options than to kiss MS ass. I know
 >  Sc> most people don't have a choice but I do.
 > 
 > I'm not sure why your so high and mighty over this.  I personally do what
 > the customer wants.  In that frame, if the customer could possibly use
 > Linux I push in that market, but overall, my customers are already
 > familiar with MS products, hence we go that direction.  Now, don't get me
 > wrong here... The clients that have gone with Linux, are happy, and there
 > are a whole bunch of specific problems they encounter, which keeps me in
 > business, and as we all know, there are a bunch of problems with MS
 > products, and this keeps me in a much better financial level.  
 > 
 > Personally, if you keep waving your Linux sword, your not going to get
 > very far.  
 >

What sword? I personally like DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD. The kiss ass comment was
just a figure of speech for me and applies to no-one but me. 

 > I've recently been contacted by one of my clients about Mac's, for which I
 > have almost zero knowledge, but, I'm willing to learn!  I've never been a
 > Mac/Apple fan, so, I'll have to swallow my pride and become more
 > familiar/knowledgable, although in recent news I've read about the
 > Mac/Linux connection, which will benifit me here.  
 >

Good system, but runs the Darwin version of FreeBSD not Linux (OSX).
 
 > In your case, you really need to understand your customers, there knowlege
 > levels, there comfort levels and remember the old adage... the customer is
 > always right.  Otherwise, your going to be a very short lived business.
 >

No sh*t, sherlock, I help teach people/kids about Linux,MS Windows, BSD.
 
 > Oh and one last thing, notice the below tag line and the version/type of
 > offline mail program I'm using before you reply.  :)
 >

Yeah, I noticed, and?
 
 > Sniper

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