Re: Take the 100% Open Source poll WAS Video Cards

JT Moree wrote:
>>> works just fine. I don't know how many people on this list actually use
>>> linux, let alone use it full time. I think there are only a couple of us that
>>> are 100% linux all the time. Proves a point that even the linux groups still
>>> use windows, so how am I to convince ceo's based on facts like that?
>
> That's a very good question. How many of us eat our own dogfood?
>
> Would everyone be willing to take a poll?
> http://www.pcxperience.com/WebGUI/index.pl/polls

I'm not 100% OSS, never was, and never will be. In the end, limiting
yourself to one software development methodology (Open Source) or
philosophy (free software) limits your choices far too much. I use the
software that best fits my needs.

Now this happens to be OSS products most of the time just because the
quality and fit for my needs tends to be so high. But I'm wedded to any
particular product.

For instance, I use OS X as my primary home desktop. OS X may be a PITA
to use as any kind of server, but it excels as a desktop. Just today, I
had to watch some presentation for work which absolutely would not work
under Linux (some combination of a newer RealPlayer and Flash was
needed). I just opened up my Powerbook and was watching it within
seconds... no muss, no fuss.

So I'm using OS X yet I use Firefox for my browsing and Thunderbird for
mail. Why not Safari and Mail.app? Well, I do use them at times.
Firefox/Thunderbird just fit my needs better right now. If either
Safari or Mail.app get better, then I will have no problem at all switching.

At work, I use OSS products (via SUSE Linux) almost exclusively... with
the notable exception of a handful of products that I must use that
require Windows (MS VC++ for one project, etc). I don't use non-OSS for
my day-to-day work since OSS software perfectly fits all of my needs.

Kurt
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