I agree with your conclusion, but not necessarily its support.
Joe (Linus?) LinuxUser is NOT going to buy MS Office. Frankly there are alternatives that would cost alot less, and match many of the same features.
The market for a port of Office to Linux would most likely be a business. Some group that couldn't/wouldn't shell for M$ PC's but needed officeware for productivity/similarity/compatibility of files and office worker skills. BUT, the price shows up anyway, as M$ would be dumb to not charge you out the @$$ for Office for Not-Windows.
And frankly, while unfortunately not entirely inaccurate, it's sort of a cheap shot to say that Linux users are "typically pirates". I would venture that the number of Linux-based pirates is infinitessimally small compared to Windows pirates (okay, that was an easy postulate).
I don't think I'm unusual in that I devour electronic AND printed media about all of my favorite topics. I've subscribed to ML since the first issue, and I found lots of stuff in it to be useful, insightful, and more in-depth than even the piercing intellect of the world-renowned/. community.
Printed media gives a little commercial legitimacy to Linux in general (seeing Linux at the newstand has to be a positive), and ML was aimed down the middle in terms of OS tech, but right at people who like to think they are Power-users or gurus. Some days I'm more than that, some days less, but the mag worked for me.
Maybe I alone couldn't keep ML afloat, but I don't see why open-source supporters (or just Linux users if they're not the same) wouldn't buy a magazine. Sometimes my cable modem is down (GASP!) Or I find myself reading current lit in the, uh, er, private moments I rarely have.
Either way, Adieu, MaxLinux. Truly, we hardly knew ye.
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I agree with your conclusion, but not necessarily its support.
Joe (Linus?) LinuxUser is NOT going to buy MS Office. Frankly there are alternatives that would cost alot less, and match many of the same features.
The market for a port of Office to Linux would most likely be a business. Some group that couldn't/wouldn't shell for M$ PC's but needed officeware for productivity/similarity/compatibility of files and office worker skills. BUT, the price shows up anyway, as M$ would be dumb to not charge you out the @$$ for Office for Not-Windows.
And frankly, while unfortunately not entirely inaccurate, it's sort of a cheap shot to say that Linux users are "typically pirates". I would venture that the number of Linux-based pirates is infinitessimally small compared to Windows pirates (okay, that was an easy postulate).
M$ Office for Linux? Never happen.
I don't think I'm unusual in that I devour electronic AND printed media about all of my favorite topics. I've subscribed to ML since the first issue, and I found lots of stuff in it to be useful, insightful, and more in-depth than even the piercing intellect of the world-renowned /. community.
Printed media gives a little commercial legitimacy to Linux in general (seeing Linux at the newstand has to be a positive), and ML was aimed down the middle in terms of OS tech, but right at people who like to think they are Power-users or gurus. Some days I'm more than that, some days less, but the mag worked for me.
Maybe I alone couldn't keep ML afloat, but I don't see why open-source supporters (or just Linux users if they're not the same) wouldn't buy a magazine. Sometimes my cable modem is down (GASP!) Or I find myself reading current lit in the, uh, er, private moments I rarely have.
Either way, Adieu, MaxLinux. Truly, we hardly knew ye.
SJ