Do these people even read the GNU? Do they even know what Open Source means?
Its not about selling the software. Its not about selling the information. Its about selling the services. Someone has to write the code, charge for the code to be written instead of for the packaged product and you have a business.
Redhat sells services for free software and is making alot of money. They continue to profit without selling software. RedHat Profits surpass expectations again
Now enough about redhat, lets talk about the ways to sell services and the purpose of the GNU. The GNU is here so that people will be able to freely share source code / information with each other. The GNU and GPL states information should be shared not sold. So why are some corperations complaining if they cant sell GNU software to people who support the GNU which specifically is against the sale of the software itself? Selling GNU software is basically asking people to donate to your company.
Instead of wasting your time pressing a CD, charge for access to the actual ftp site or dont let them download at all forcing them to buy the CD from you. This can work but only in the corperate world. How do you sell to the user? Its simple. You dont.
You charge the user for the service of actually writing the code. You have surveys asking the users what software they need. you make a demo version which is VERY VERY stripped down, and tell the user if they want this software to be completed they have to subscribe for $1-5 a month until development is complete.
Development is completed. User gets software, Developers got paid. Company then earns profit by selling updates via CD.
Its easy to get a person to buy an update to software they already use, but its impossible to get a person to buy software they've never used.
So yes its possible to make money on open source software, but you arent going to do it using the closed source business model.
PS2 had shortages, DC had shortages, and of course Gamecube and Xbox have shortages. So its not fair to compare a system which cant even make enough to compare to PS2.
What kinda stupid article is this, of course PSX would outsell consoles which are limited in distribution.
Next year will be the real test. Right now seeing PS2 outsold Xbox and Gamecube is no more surprising than last year hearing PSX was outselling every other system.
When theres more Xbox and Gamcubes made there will be more sales.
Dude everyone gets depressed, you think having the ability to get depressed is some kinda disease? Thats silly. Yes some people, and i mean a few, get suicidally depressed, however these people are RARE, these rare people do deserve treatment but most people dont. Your average anti social person does not have a problem however, someone who cannot communicate or even talk does have a problem. There are EXTREME cases which require EXTREME reaction. But 99 percent of all cases of these so called mental disorders wont be solved by shoving pills down their throat.
If Mike Tyson had anger management he would not be champion of the world and he'd STILL be in jail for rape. Rape has nothing to do with anger, neither does commiting crimes now i suppose you will say all rapists and criminals have some sorta disease causing them to act this way and give them pills too?
Thats a good question, do genes control a persons sexual prefrences?
Obviously something controls it, else everyone would have the same sexual prefrences right?
The enviornment doesnt control it, perhaps its chemicals in the brain?????? Well, whatever controls a persons temper, most likely also controls a persons sexual prefrence.
Do genes control a persons personality? Well, honestly no one knows what controls this. But something obviously does.
Most of the so called Balanced people, arent very intelligent. Sure they are very balanced, but because of their extreme balance, while they may be normal, how many Balanced people are truely intelligent?
It seems, that its always the people who are the most social, who end up doing the stupidest things.
As far as social skills go, I dont have them, I have technical skills. I could develop social skills but to do so while it would balance me, i'd have to become less technical to do so.
People work like this, either you are naturally good at sometihng, or you arent, usually its best to focus on what you are naturally good at, than to focus on developing skills you arent good at just for the sake of being balanced. As far as social skills go, you dont really need social skills to be successful, take a good look at bill gates, a liar, a backstabber, not really someone anyone could call a friend, no sense of style, he doesnt go to parties, I'm sure he would be considered autistic, but the fact that hes the richest man in the world should tell you something. In order to have what it takes, you need to be the best at what you do, not the most balanced. Have enough social skills to have a conversation of course, but you dont have to try to completely balance yourself unless you are naturally balanced.
I agree with you, people are very specialized, just like good code, is very specialized. When you try to be a jack of all trades, you are always a master of none.
Introduce me to the great scientist or technical person who goes to parties and socializes and no i dont mean some guy from slashdot, slashdotters arent "great" just average.
Steven Hawkings? Albert Einstien? Scientific skills yes, social skills NO.
Theres no way you'd see Steven Hawkings or Alber Einstien at a party, if you do, I want you to show me some pictures of this.
A jack of all trades is a master of none. Most "Normal" people are balanced, and thats exactly why most "Normal" people arent Einstien, or Steven Hawkings etc.
Balance of social skills and technical skills means you give up something, when you balance, you lose technical skill yet you are more balanced.
Corperations dont want balance they want specialists.
Just like some people are seriously sucidally depressed, seriousally full of anger etc to the point where they have no self control and need medicine. These cases are EXTREMELY rare.
Theres no reason we should be taking pills for just the typical depression, the typical ADHD, or the typical anger problems.
Some people really do have bad chemistry, and those people do get help from the pills, but these people are very VERY rare.
As far as all the things you list, I've never met anyone who based on whats up there, truely has ADHD, yet i've met people on meds for it. Really, 99 percent of all the cases of ADHD are just kids who dont pay attention in the classroom, these same kids go home and all of the sudden ADHD seems to mysteriously vanish.
While some do have a real problem, just like some people are truely mentally unstable and not just depressed or angry, usually its not so bad.
Also i disagree with shoving pills down peoples throats, i dont really think pills is the answer, its like getting a person high and hoping they get well. I think there should be some steps to treatment, first by teaching the kid to focus, by finding something the kid really likes, and seeing how long they can focus on it, second is to try to mix things the kid likes and bring it to the classroom.
I mean you must admit, it certainly is harder to focus on something you cant stand, than something you enjoy alot.
Well how do you know his problem is actually ADHD and not something else?
It seems most people who have so called ADHD, its a childhood phase, i havent met any adults with it. Secondlly most people who do have it, while they cant concentrate on school, they DO concentrate on things they like.
I dont think ive ever met anyone who couldnt concentrate on anything at all, perhaps your friend is a rare extreme case, and if ritalin is helping him thats good. But doctors these days give people drugs when they dont really NEED them. Your friend obviously has a serious problem.
Yes they do need individual attention, or they need to learn perhaps using computers and technology instead of books and chalkboards.
I think people who are autistic could learn better teaching themselves than sitting in a classroom being forced to read outloud and obeying orders from a teacher. Now theres options such as homeschooling and tutors, or they can go through school the normal way and be labeled autistic.
Really, to me its all just another way to label a person, like geek, nerd, etc to seperate them from the pack. If they need individual attention, give it to them, how? Create some education software for autistic children, instead of having these kids sit with the group, put them in front of the computer and let them use the software to learn, let them browse the internet, let them learn from within their own world instead of forcing everyone to learn the exact same way.
Why not? We have the technology to do it, we just need the money, the software, and instead of wasting all this money on stupid drugs like ritalin and whatever, spend it on tutors and extra computers.
Autism has ALWAYS been here, its not a new thing, neither is ADHD or any of these other so called disorder.
Hell even depression is a disorder, in the future when people evolved into emotionless beings, emotions will be a disorder, most likely starting with hate and moving up to love, why? Because just like Autism, emotion too can be a weakness.
Face it, Autism is not something thats caused by the weather, to think that is like thinking your IQ is decided based on where you were born, i guess thats why kids born in these third world countries who dont even eat 3 meals a day have much higher IQs.
Its not what you eat, its not the enviornment you live in, its your genes.
Autism, ADHD etc, its a genetic feature, not a disorder. Sure it can be a problem or a disorder, but it also can be a feature, it depends on how you look at it. To a computer programmer, this is a very good thing because theres no way you can be a good programmer without going into that kinda anti social trace like state. I mean really, who writes programs while talking to their friends on the telephone, and drinking a beer?
I suppose some might, but that would explain why code is so buggy these days.
If thats true, why do people treat autism like its a disease, when its just genetics.
Eistien for example was Austistic, or at least he would be if he were in school today.
Instead of focusing on labeling people and giving them drugs, we should focus on how to teach these people in the way they understand best, scientific and technical, perhaps they need 1 on 1 attention instead of an entire class, but if they end up becoming the next einstiens is it worth it?
Haha I've heard some excuses but this one is funny, you actually think silicon valley is polluted? Try going to new york. The enviornment has nothing to do with it.
Remember, when there parents were growing up, it most likely didnt have a name, there was no treatment, how do you know this isnt the normal development cycle that their genetics go through?
Really, we dont, but instead of teachers complaining, i think teachers should learn to teach, and not just teach the average kid, but teach every kid.
Now its true classes have gotten bigger so a teacher cannot spend the time anymore, but with all this technology you mean to tell me we still teach in such a way? And kids who are hard to teach we drug?
We can do better than that. I'm not saying give ever student laptops, but really, why are we still using chalk boards and paper, wheres all this educational software? Why arent GNU and Open source programmers starting some kinda open education movement? I say if we have computers and are in the information age, its time to get with the times, spend alittle money and invest it properly in schoools, and really, kids in silicon valley have no excuse at all, I bet they all have rich parents and can afford tutors, and laptops, and whatever they need.
ADHD is basically a kid whos not normal, who rebels.
If you rebel, if you arent normal, these doctors will find something to diagnose you with, be it ADHD, or Autism, they will find some stupid excuse. And really this is like abuse to the kids, first it ruins their self esteem to hear doctors and teachers and students treat them like they have some kinda real disease like downs syndrome etc, second, they get drugged up so much in school that if they do manage to learn a damn thing in school its a miracle.
Instead of finding stupid names for kids who are simply diffrent, first it was nerds, then geeks, then ADHD, then autistic, why not just accept a few things, first, everyone learns diffrent. Second, everyone develops at their own pace, some people dont learn to speak for the first 5 years of life and end up becoming famous writers. Really, its a matter of accepting the fact that when it comes to dealing with kids and teaching, theres no standard way to do it, you do what works for each kid, of course, when classrooms are packed with 50 kids you are going to do what works for the "generic" kid.
Think about this, lets take the average stereptypical programmer from silicon valley, whos anti social, who prolly had no friends growing up and in school, if the kid turns out anything like the parent, its genetics.
if you look at how they define autism, anyone whos anti social, who stays to themselves, who doesnt talk much, they are considered autistic. Of course theres other issues involved, but doctors are quick to put some name on somenoe whos just not the norm.
Forget what doctors say, give these kids a computer, and check back in 20 years.
That Engine is at least 3 years old now. It was nice when it first came out, maybe even the best during its time, but right now, its weak and certainly not state of the art.
A good Engine is an Engine which people think is state of the art 4 years after its released.
We arent talking about me. We arent talking about you.
We are talking about the average user. Windows comes with the computer, So Windows IS the computer.
AOL cd shows up at their door, AOL comes with the computer, AOL IS THE INTERNET.
And, lastly, IE comes with windows, so IE is the world wide web.
Its not like Netscape and IE comes with windows.
IF you are using Windows, You'll use all of Microsofts software because its there not because its the best.
And you use Microsofts software simply because its there and it works, not because it works well.
Its not like AOL cds are shipped with competitors software on it
Most people use what is already there because
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If something isnt broke, why fix it?
Its not that people dont care, they dont know any better.They arent knowledgeable enough to know theres something better than windows better than IE, and so on and so forth.
They use AOL because they believe AOL IS the internet, not a client to access it.
They use Microsoft Windows because they believe Windows IS the computer, and that theres nothing else to use.
You see, if people arent given a chance to choose in a store when they go to buy their computer, they automatically assume that because Windows is all thats being sold, that Windows is all there is.
Proof- Not so long ago, people believe that in order to buy a PC, you had to buy an Intel Pentium, people even called PCs Intel Boxes, or Pentiums. When a person wanted to buy a Video Card before Nvidia arrived, People went for a Voodoo, not because Voodoo was the only card but because thats all that people saw in the stores, sure there were other cards but what card did all games seem to support? The Voodoo cards.
Sure theres always been choice, but if every corperation, every store, everywhere you go, you dont see any choice, you just see one product, eventually in your mind thats it, theres nothing else to choose from. After years of only computers packed with Windows, it will be quite a shock to see a computer packed with Lindows, but if Lindows can prove to the user that its better than Windows,
Like Nvidia beat Vodooo, and AMD beat Intel, Lindows may beat Windows.
However, IF Microsoft forces OEMs to only use Windows from Microsoft, and people like Dell dont even sell you a computer with anything else, well, what do you expect to happen here?
I'm happy to see Lindows stand up to Microsoft and give them serious competition, the problem with OS2 is, it wasnt competition at all, it actually helped sell Microsoft Windows because OS2 sat in the backround, no OEM sold OS2 computers, not even IBM the makers of OS2 sold OS2 on their own Machines.
Just like Mozilla and Netscape cant catch up to IE because AOL wont use Netscapes browser on their own software.
So what do you expect to happen when Linux users dont support Lindows?
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Your parents CAN use linux, put them in front of KDE and its point and click, even rpm installs are point and click.
For most people, who surf the web and check email, thats good enough.
Do these people even read the GNU? Do they even know what Open Source means? Its not about selling the software. Its not about selling the information. Its about selling the services. Someone has to write the code, charge for the code to be written instead of for the packaged product and you have a business. Redhat sells services for free software and is making alot of money. They continue to profit without selling software. RedHat Profits surpass expectations again Now enough about redhat, lets talk about the ways to sell services and the purpose of the GNU. The GNU is here so that people will be able to freely share source code / information with each other. The GNU and GPL states information should be shared not sold. So why are some corperations complaining if they cant sell GNU software to people who support the GNU which specifically is against the sale of the software itself? Selling GNU software is basically asking people to donate to your company. Instead of wasting your time pressing a CD, charge for access to the actual ftp site or dont let them download at all forcing them to buy the CD from you. This can work but only in the corperate world. How do you sell to the user? Its simple. You dont. You charge the user for the service of actually writing the code. You have surveys asking the users what software they need. you make a demo version which is VERY VERY stripped down, and tell the user if they want this software to be completed they have to subscribe for $1-5 a month until development is complete. Development is completed. User gets software, Developers got paid. Company then earns profit by selling updates via CD. Its easy to get a person to buy an update to software they already use, but its impossible to get a person to buy software they've never used. So yes its possible to make money on open source software, but you arent going to do it using the closed source business model.
Simply because there werent as many PS2s made.
The year before, PSX was outselling DC.
PS2 had shortages, DC had shortages, and of course Gamecube and Xbox have shortages. So its not fair to compare a system which cant even make enough to compare to PS2.
What kinda stupid article is this, of course PSX would outsell consoles which are limited in distribution.
Next year will be the real test. Right now seeing PS2 outsold Xbox and Gamecube is no more surprising than last year hearing PSX was outselling every other system.
When theres more Xbox and Gamcubes made there will be more sales.
Dude everyone gets depressed, you think having the ability to get depressed is some kinda disease? Thats silly. Yes some people, and i mean a few, get suicidally depressed, however these people are RARE, these rare people do deserve treatment but most people dont. Your average anti social person does not have a problem however, someone who cannot communicate or even talk does have a problem. There are EXTREME cases which require EXTREME reaction. But 99 percent of all cases of these so called mental disorders wont be solved by shoving pills down their throat.
If Mike Tyson had anger management he would not be champion of the world and he'd STILL be in jail for rape. Rape has nothing to do with anger, neither does commiting crimes now i suppose you will say all rapists and criminals have some sorta disease causing them to act this way and give them pills too?
What kinda question is that? And now everyone who gets depressed gets suicidally depressed, just a few.
Just like only a few people who are anti social actually have a REAL problem (IE they cant talk or communicate at all}
Mike Tyson if he took anger management wouldnt be a world champion boxer and would prolly still end up in prison for rape
Thats a good question, do genes control a persons sexual prefrences?
Obviously something controls it, else everyone would have the same sexual prefrences right?
The enviornment doesnt control it, perhaps its chemicals in the brain?????? Well, whatever controls a persons temper, most likely also controls a persons sexual prefrence.
Do genes control a persons personality? Well, honestly no one knows what controls this. But something obviously does.
Most of the so called Balanced people, arent very intelligent. Sure they are very balanced, but because of their extreme balance, while they may be normal, how many Balanced people are truely intelligent?
It seems, that its always the people who are the most social, who end up doing the stupidest things.
As far as social skills go, I dont have them, I have technical skills. I could develop social skills but to do so while it would balance me, i'd have to become less technical to do so.
People work like this, either you are naturally good at sometihng, or you arent, usually its best to focus on what you are naturally good at, than to focus on developing skills you arent good at just for the sake of being balanced. As far as social skills go, you dont really need social skills to be successful, take a good look at bill gates, a liar, a backstabber, not really someone anyone could call a friend, no sense of style, he doesnt go to parties, I'm sure he would be considered autistic, but the fact that hes the richest man in the world should tell you something. In order to have what it takes, you need to be the best at what you do, not the most balanced. Have enough social skills to have a conversation of course, but you dont have to try to completely balance yourself unless you are naturally balanced.
I agree with you, people are very specialized, just like good code, is very specialized. When you try to be a jack of all trades, you are always a master of none.
Introduce me to the great scientist or technical person who goes to parties and socializes and no i dont mean some guy from slashdot, slashdotters arent "great" just average.
Steven Hawkings? Albert Einstien? Scientific skills yes, social skills NO.
Theres no way you'd see Steven Hawkings or Alber Einstien at a party, if you do, I want you to show me some pictures of this.
A jack of all trades is a master of none. Most "Normal" people are balanced, and thats exactly why most "Normal" people arent Einstien, or Steven Hawkings etc.
Balance of social skills and technical skills means you give up something, when you balance, you lose technical skill yet you are more balanced.
Corperations dont want balance they want specialists.
Just like some people are seriously sucidally depressed, seriousally full of anger etc to the point where they have no self control and need medicine. These cases are EXTREMELY rare.
Theres no reason we should be taking pills for just the typical depression, the typical ADHD, or the typical anger problems.
Some people really do have bad chemistry, and those people do get help from the pills, but these people are very VERY rare.
As far as all the things you list, I've never met anyone who based on whats up there, truely has ADHD, yet i've met people on meds for it. Really, 99 percent of all the cases of ADHD are just kids who dont pay attention in the classroom, these same kids go home and all of the sudden ADHD seems to mysteriously vanish.
While some do have a real problem, just like some people are truely mentally unstable and not just depressed or angry, usually its not so bad.
Also i disagree with shoving pills down peoples throats, i dont really think pills is the answer, its like getting a person high and hoping they get well. I think there should be some steps to treatment, first by teaching the kid to focus, by finding something the kid really likes, and seeing how long they can focus on it, second is to try to mix things the kid likes and bring it to the classroom.
I mean you must admit, it certainly is harder to focus on something you cant stand, than something you enjoy alot.
Well how do you know his problem is actually ADHD and not something else?
It seems most people who have so called ADHD, its a childhood phase, i havent met any adults with it. Secondlly most people who do have it, while they cant concentrate on school, they DO concentrate on things they like.
I dont think ive ever met anyone who couldnt concentrate on anything at all, perhaps your friend is a rare extreme case, and if ritalin is helping him thats good. But doctors these days give people drugs when they dont really NEED them. Your friend obviously has a serious problem.
Dont compare someone with diabeties or cancer to someone with Autism.
Someone with a REAL disease which they can die from needs help.
Someone with Autism doesnt need "Help", Never usually asks for help, and usually has unwanted help forced on them ALL the time.
Autism is more compareable to someone who has a short temper, or who is depressed. This is not always someone who needs "help".
Mike Tyson, I'm sure he could use some anger management classes, but for a boxer, his anger is what made him champion of the world.
Sometimes helping people who dont need it actually harms them (drugging them up in school, forcing them to see psychologists) etc etc.
Yes they do need individual attention, or they need to learn perhaps using computers and technology instead of books and chalkboards.
I think people who are autistic could learn better teaching themselves than sitting in a classroom being forced to read outloud and obeying orders from a teacher. Now theres options such as homeschooling and tutors, or they can go through school the normal way and be labeled autistic.
Really, to me its all just another way to label a person, like geek, nerd, etc to seperate them from the pack. If they need individual attention, give it to them, how? Create some education software for autistic children, instead of having these kids sit with the group, put them in front of the computer and let them use the software to learn, let them browse the internet, let them learn from within their own world instead of forcing everyone to learn the exact same way.
Why not? We have the technology to do it, we just need the money, the software, and instead of wasting all this money on stupid drugs like ritalin and whatever, spend it on tutors and extra computers.
Autism has ALWAYS been here, its not a new thing, neither is ADHD or any of these other so called disorder.
Hell even depression is a disorder, in the future when people evolved into emotionless beings, emotions will be a disorder, most likely starting with hate and moving up to love, why? Because just like Autism, emotion too can be a weakness.
Face it, Autism is not something thats caused by the weather, to think that is like thinking your IQ is decided based on where you were born, i guess thats why kids born in these third world countries who dont even eat 3 meals a day have much higher IQs.
Its not what you eat, its not the enviornment you live in, its your genes.
Autism, ADHD etc, its a genetic feature, not a disorder. Sure it can be a problem or a disorder, but it also can be a feature, it depends on how you look at it. To a computer programmer, this is a very good thing because theres no way you can be a good programmer without going into that kinda anti social trace like state. I mean really, who writes programs while talking to their friends on the telephone, and drinking a beer?
I suppose some might, but that would explain why code is so buggy these days.
If thats true, why do people treat autism like its a disease, when its just genetics.
Eistien for example was Austistic, or at least he would be if he were in school today.
Instead of focusing on labeling people and giving them drugs, we should focus on how to teach these people in the way they understand best, scientific and technical, perhaps they need 1 on 1 attention instead of an entire class, but if they end up becoming the next einstiens is it worth it?
Haha I've heard some excuses but this one is funny, you actually think silicon valley is polluted? Try going to new york. The enviornment has nothing to do with it.
Remember, when there parents were growing up, it most likely didnt have a name, there was no treatment, how do you know this isnt the normal development cycle that their genetics go through?
Really, we dont, but instead of teachers complaining, i think teachers should learn to teach, and not just teach the average kid, but teach every kid.
Now its true classes have gotten bigger so a teacher cannot spend the time anymore, but with all this technology you mean to tell me we still teach in such a way? And kids who are hard to teach we drug?
We can do better than that. I'm not saying give ever student laptops, but really, why are we still using chalk boards and paper, wheres all this educational software? Why arent GNU and Open source programmers starting some kinda open education movement? I say if we have computers and are in the information age, its time to get with the times, spend alittle money and invest it properly in schoools, and really, kids in silicon valley have no excuse at all, I bet they all have rich parents and can afford tutors, and laptops, and whatever they need.
So why the article?
ADHD is basically a kid whos not normal, who rebels.
If you rebel, if you arent normal, these doctors will find something to diagnose you with, be it ADHD, or Autism, they will find some stupid excuse. And really this is like abuse to the kids, first it ruins their self esteem to hear doctors and teachers and students treat them like they have some kinda real disease like downs syndrome etc, second, they get drugged up so much in school that if they do manage to learn a damn thing in school its a miracle.
Instead of finding stupid names for kids who are simply diffrent, first it was nerds, then geeks, then ADHD, then autistic, why not just accept a few things, first, everyone learns diffrent. Second, everyone develops at their own pace, some people dont learn to speak for the first 5 years of life and end up becoming famous writers. Really, its a matter of accepting the fact that when it comes to dealing with kids and teaching, theres no standard way to do it, you do what works for each kid, of course, when classrooms are packed with 50 kids you are going to do what works for the "generic" kid.
Think about this, lets take the average stereptypical programmer from silicon valley, whos anti social, who prolly had no friends growing up and in school, if the kid turns out anything like the parent, its genetics.
if you look at how they define autism, anyone whos anti social, who stays to themselves, who doesnt talk much, they are considered autistic. Of course theres other issues involved, but doctors are quick to put some name on somenoe whos just not the norm.
Forget what doctors say, give these kids a computer, and check back in 20 years.
Free documentation = freedom to share it, people will still get paid to write it.
Was word perfect packed in with Windows? Nope.
Was Netscape packed in with Windows? Nope.
As a rule Microsoft should be FORCED to pack in competitors software with every version of software of their own that they pack in.
That Engine is at least 3 years old now. It was nice when it first came out, maybe even the best during its time, but right now, its weak and certainly not state of the art.
A good Engine is an Engine which people think is state of the art 4 years after its released.
We arent talking about me. We arent talking about you.
We are talking about the average user. Windows comes with the computer, So Windows IS the computer.
AOL cd shows up at their door, AOL comes with the computer, AOL IS THE INTERNET.
And, lastly, IE comes with windows, so IE is the world wide web.
Its not like Netscape and IE comes with windows.
IF you are using Windows, You'll use all of Microsofts software because its there not because its the best.
And you use Microsofts software simply because its there and it works, not because it works well.
Its not like AOL cds are shipped with competitors software on it
If something isnt broke, why fix it?
Its not that people dont care, they dont know any better.They arent knowledgeable enough to know theres something better than windows better than IE, and so on and so forth.
They use AOL because they believe AOL IS the internet, not a client to access it.
They use Microsoft Windows because they believe Windows IS the computer, and that theres nothing else to use.
You see, if people arent given a chance to choose in a store when they go to buy their computer, they automatically assume that because Windows is all thats being sold, that Windows is all there is.
Proof- Not so long ago, people believe that in order to buy a PC, you had to buy an Intel Pentium, people even called PCs Intel Boxes, or Pentiums. When a person wanted to buy a Video Card before Nvidia arrived, People went for a Voodoo, not because Voodoo was the only card but because thats all that people saw in the stores, sure there were other cards but what card did all games seem to support? The Voodoo cards.
Sure theres always been choice, but if every corperation, every store, everywhere you go, you dont see any choice, you just see one product, eventually in your mind thats it, theres nothing else to choose from. After years of only computers packed with Windows, it will be quite a shock to see a computer packed with Lindows, but if Lindows can prove to the user that its better than Windows,
Like Nvidia beat Vodooo, and AMD beat Intel, Lindows may beat Windows.
However, IF Microsoft forces OEMs to only use Windows from Microsoft, and people like Dell dont even sell you a computer with anything else, well, what do you expect to happen here?
I'm happy to see Lindows stand up to Microsoft and give them serious competition, the problem with OS2 is, it wasnt competition at all, it actually helped sell Microsoft Windows because OS2 sat in the backround, no OEM sold OS2 computers, not even IBM the makers of OS2 sold OS2 on their own Machines.
Just like Mozilla and Netscape cant catch up to IE because AOL wont use Netscapes browser on their own software.
So what do you expect to happen when Linux users dont support Lindows?
But we have to get more people using Linux and this is the only way to do it.