Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously?

From	Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.setup
Subject	Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously?
Date	2011-06-14 18:37 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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RayLopez99 wrote:
> On Jun 14, 7:20 am, John Slade <hhitma...@pacbell.net> wrote:
>> On 6/10/2011 3:07 PM, RayLopez99 wrote:
>>
>>> Again, I ask the timeless rhetorical question:  who is seriously using
>>> Linux for Serious Work?  Since the first time I've posted this thread,
>>> from years ago, only ONE (1) person has shown me they do Serious Work
>>> (a defined term--for you first time viewers--I'm talking about an OS
>>> that supports the Office Suite).  This one person was a contract
>>> manager who insisted on using Linux.  He was valuable enough to his
>>> organization that they let him get away with this stunt, and he ended
>>> up converting all Linux work into Office format using some emulator
>>> like Wine I suppose, or perhaps Linux somehow can export to .docx
>>> format, though I don't see how.
>>> One person in all these years.  Just one.
>>> Case closed.
>>        Linux is used to run a LOT of servers and servers are
>> very serious work.
>>
>> John
> 
> Serious Work is a defined term.  See the original post.  By definition
> servers are not Serious Work, though they may be doing serious and
> important work.
> 
> RL

   So you finally manage to contradict yourself in your own post.

-- 
Norman
Registered Linux user #461062
AMD64X2 6400+ Ubuntu 8.04 64bit

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