[Am-info] 10 years of sucking up to Microsoft pays off for one company

[Geoffrey]

Paul Rickard wrote:
> ========== On 2002.07.29 01:29 PM, Geoffrey typed: ============
> 
> 
>>>...and destroying any magazines that don't cater to the techno 
>>>illiterate small office/home office/housewife Windows user.
>>>
>>I'll have you know my mother-in-law is very happy with her Red Hat based 
>>system.  Although not technically a housewife (retired, one person 
>>household), I will say, if she can do it ANYONE can.
>>
>>Further, I'd say I'm running a nice little 'small office' and a 'home 
>>office' here, not a sight of Microsoft anywhere.  You might consider 
>>modified terminology.
>>
> 
>    I'm not saying that small office/home office/housewife users are 
> techno illiterate, I'm saying that techno illiterates who fall into those 
> categories are the ones being targeted. My Mom is a housewife and she's 
> not technologically illiterate either. My apologies to you and your 
> mother in law.

Heh, heh.  My mother-in-law IS technically illiterate, but I've done 
virtually nothing to her machine since it wsa converted to Linux.  Prior 
to that time, I'd been over there resolving various issues, including 
two viral attacks.  She opens everything.  She's got a sister who sends 
her all kinds of crap, including executables.  She was opening them all. 
  Now, she can open the word docs with no problems and never opens the 
.EXE, which is a good thing.

> 
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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?