Verizon DSL
Rajiv Vyas
rajiv1 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 13 19:36:42 UTC 2005
On 8/13/05, Sean Miller <sean at seanmiller.net> wrote:
> Rajiv Vyas wrote:
>
> >Well it was well worth it for me too. The Verizon dude told me: "Oh
> >linux!! You need a Windows or a Mac. We have this software that has
> >scripts that start your DSL. It can't start without those scripts.
> >Sorry!"
> >Me: "So what do I do? Should I return the modem and cancel your service."
> >Verizon: "Well you could buy a NEW Windows or Mac."
> >
> >
> Sigh!
>
> I have a fella in New Hampshire, US that was almost a Linux evangelist
> until he decided that his ISP (Comcast is it?) wouldn't "support" Linux....
>
> BAH!!
>
> Why do these folks talk such rubbish to their customers??! This man had
> a cable modem... it had an RJ45 connection out... as far as his XP
> machine was concerned this was just a LAN connection... but could I
> persuade him of that, and that Linux *would* work?? No... not a chance :-(
>
> I am glad that I am in the UK! This "pay loads for absolute bullsh!t"
> just doesn't do it for me...
>
> Sean
>
What really surprised me was that when I asked this tech support guy
at Linksys about how many calls they get from Linux users, he said
that almsot none. That was very disappointing. It basically means that
all the Gartner and IDC studies that come out about 2% market share
for Linux on the desktop are probably true. I have always mainted
that Linux needs to cross that 4% or 5% threshhold for software
vendors and hardware makers to start writing drivers and software. I
guess that's at least five years away.
Rajiv
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