dreams and schemes

[Krishnakant Mane]

Hi Doug,
I have the same experiences.
Infact me and my wife got together due to Free software.
I have all my students exclusively use GNU/Linux for all their 
programming and personal work, they have no problems with it.
There are a few states in our country which implement free software as a 
policy.
I will not say that the picture is absolutely rosy, but more and more 
people with whom I come in daily contact are using the free and open 
source operating system for every day work now.
a few years back, 5 odd years to be presise, hearing some one say "I use 
linux " was a surprise and a matter of great skillset as it seemd to 
many people.
But now every other person uses it or at least knows it.
This is what I have been through, I have not used proprietary softwaer 
or OS since 2005 and I have no regrets at all..
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 11/04/2013 07:16 AM, Doug Smith wrote:
> Good going, Kyle.  I want to work as well.  However, come here and try to find some kind of work, even if it's being paid to sneeze into the wind.
> The person who put on here that we have to put up with a lot of prejudice and rejection.  Short of taking control of the world, I see no reasonable
> solution to this in the near future.  The only thing we can do is work when we can.
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> I have used linux exclusively since the mid to late 1990's.  I have done such things as offered to get the systems going again in local businesses
> when they fail, but they had rather lock the doors and tell the customers that the computer has failed and the managers not to let new people in.
> That is a class A susser when someone right there in the store could help even if screens had to be read.
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> I have worked on people's computers for some time.  I have friends in the next town for whom I have done computer work and they have learned to use a
> computer with linux on it and have had no real trouble with it.
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> Here at the McCune Center, where I live, I have helped several residents with computer problems.  I just replaced the software on the machines with
> linux and all is well.  I have even helped people get things going on systems I have never seen before over the phone.
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> You are right.  I know that it takes a while to get up to speed on some of this new tech that you have never programmed for.  That's fine.  I'm
> working on that one and it is not as complex as it seems.  It's time consuming with all the other things I have to do but I can do it.
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> Now, on the subject of learning new computer systems.  I have taught my girlfriend, the other friends I referred to above and some of the residents
> here to work with linux systems and they like it.  They don't have any kind of real problems that are too difficult to fix.
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> I could not have done that if I sound rude, condescending or mean.  I hope this message doesn't come across like that.  If so, I apologize in advance.
> This is just a statement of fact, not a flame.
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> Now, I have not used proprietary operating systems or screen access tech since the days of the Apple // family of systems on which I first learned to
> do computing of any kind.  I have used linux since the mid to late 1990's and I have never looked back.  I have never used windows nor mac-osx.  I
> also find that whatever I need to do on a computer is easily doable on linux.
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> I do not mean to brag.  I have nothing to prove and I have nobody to prove it to.  This is, as previously stated, just a statement of truth.
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