[BALUG-Talk] Linux references in an essay

[Baptiste]

WOW, that's great

very informative.
really smart answers.

- I'm actually discovering how widely spread Linux is outside of domestic
personal computers..
and how faster it goes. This is very exciting.


Merci Beaucoup M'sieur David

b.




On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:26 PM, David Fetter <david at fetter.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:31:01AM -0800, Baptiste wrote:
> > Here are sentences about Linux I wrote in an essay. I'd like to know
> > what you think of those..  The essay is about the principle of open
> > sources as applied to the education system.  It's not scientific..
> > it's for an eng.1A class....
> >
> >
> > Parts of my essay:
> >
> > << * Linux, as an operating system, provides a more customizable
> environment
> > for knowledgeable users, by opposition to *Apple's Mac OS* and *Microsoft
> > Windows*.
>
> Linux doesn't exist "by opposition" (more properly, "in opposition")
> to anything.  It's a dynamic thing which people participate in for
> their own purposes.
>
> > Even though it isn't as famous, it is widely used for organizations
> > that need secured and specific settings of computer networks.>>
>
> I don't know what you mean by "isn't as famous."  It's an operating
> system which has dominated the server arena since about 2001, not
> coincidentally when the last economic collapse occurred.  When pennies
> count, "free as in beer" counts, too.
>
> > - this is a footnote in my text. The aim is to connect it to
> > something the reader might know.
>
> A common reader's first knowing encounter with Free software is very
> likely Firefox.
>
> > - I should add something about the "one laptop per child" to it..
>
> Why?
>
> > + can I say: Google increases its power by *opening its sources*??
> > Is it right to say *opening their sources* here?*
>
> Google has gotten some good will in the FOSS community by opening its
> sources, but IBM is a much better example of ROI.  They went from
> doing lots of new stuff in that awful monster known as AIX to making
> Linux their default *n*x and saved a huge bundle in the process.
>
> > * or is it right to say :     "Open source systems"
> >
> > Thank you so much!
>
> De rien ;)
>
> Cheers,
> David (qui parle français comme une vache espagnole)
> >
> >
> > baptiste
>
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