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Mostly stopped? Why didn't he stop altogether? Or do you simply not want to consider the reason for this? And he figured arguing with cola readers and telling them that they know less...
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:41:17 +0100, Peter Kshlmann Oxford is certainly an idiot, and...
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I don't find that argument particularly convincing. The problem is illustrated by your own paragraph, which swings across ideas a little too rapidly for my taste.
"Sn?t has he was looking for an alternative to XP to offer his students"
Pretty much what he said, I'll agree.
Does he know what they want? Apparently not. On repeatedly asking him what they wanted, he was unable to produce a single requirement, although he was able to claim the he "knew what they wanted". Well, to my mind, it sounds like at best he hasn't got much of a clue what they want. When offered possibilities and suggestions, compared everything *not* with XP, which he claimed to be replacing but with OSX, which he *never* claimed to be replacing. So, virtually all he just wanted a bit of advocacy help..?
Next major point: He claims to be a computer consultant and lecturer, well, why on earth can't he bl**dy well read up about this stuff or try it out like the rest of us? I've aboslutely *no* problem helping people out to make things work, but I'm not going to sit here offering buttistance for it to be ignored, or some weird OSX capability be thrown back as some kind of proof why Linux couldn't replace XP for a bunch of students whose needs he claims to know but cannot describe.
A real newbie linux user would not go to an advocacy group for this, they would go, as sn$t was repeatedly told to, to mailing lists, or web-help, or even a LUG (one was offered - sn)t never bothered to turn up), or appropriate newsgroups. You could argue that maybe (s)he didn't know much about advocacy groups, but as a shedload of people have followed from CSMA, it's clear that this argument doesn't hold either.
Now, whatever hapenned to rtfm as good advice? It's still good advice, especially to someone who claims to be a consultant and lecturer. I know it's been criticised as unfriendly, and for a *real* newbie, it would be.
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