In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Psyc Geek (TAB)
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on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:46:55 -0700 (PDT)
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> On Aug 15, 6:25?pm, proteanthread <rt...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080809033233244
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>> <SNIP>
>> ?put this article from Law.com's Legal Technology page, "Commentary:
>> The Penguin Doesn't Fly, Avoid Linux" in News Picks because I found it
>> hilarious, in the Rob Enderle kind of way. But then I thought I'd look
>> up the author on Google, and lo and behold, I find he said something
>> that appears to be not exactly true. I'm not talking about the FUD
>> stuff. [...]
[snip for brevity]
>> http://legaltech.law.com/commentary-the-penguin-do.html
>>
>> <SNIP>
>> Linux fans begin with this claim -- that freeware costs nothing.
Not true, though it depends on the definition of "cost".
To be fair, I frankly don't know which would be harder to
learn for someone who is reasonably intelligent but who has
never seen a computer before. Unfortunately, most people
cut their teeth on Windows, as it is near-ubuquitous,
so they know things such as <Ctrl-Alt-Delete>,
<Ctrl-C>/<Ctrl-X>/<Ctrl-V>, click-to-focus, double-click
on icons, and pulldown and popup menus.
There are also issues for creating a new do***ent, which
implies starting a tool. I frankly don't know if Windows
bothers anymore but at one point a lot of Microsoft Office
was alleged to have been preloaded, whereas OpenOffice had
to be loaded every time. (I'd frankly have to research
exactly how an executable is loaded; the simplest method
is to map the executable file, and let the pages fault in
as needed. Unfortunately that only works if the executable
file doesn't require fixups.)
>> Next,
>> that it is quicker, more flexible, more customizable and more
>> resilient to crashes and headaches inherent to Windows,
Not an issue for a lawyer. Why? Lawyers aren't about to
fiddle a lot with their systems (on the client's time,
anyway). At best, one guy in a small firm might be the
network manager.
>> while less
>> subject to attack, identity theft, adware, spyware and malware. And,
>> that new life can be wrung from old computers staggering under the
>> burden that Windows necessarily inflicts on them.
Not an issue for a lawyer if he has a good NAT frontend
and keeps up to date with all AV software. The system
surrounding Windows is very adaptable, and looks for things
to make a profit, after all.
Personally, I prefer the Linux method, but it is not the
only one -- or even the most prevalent one.
>>
>> Linux and freeware proponents also maintain that a free operating
>> system and free software comes without the ethical and legal
>> conundrums associated with Microsoft?s business practices. For
>> example: preventing computer manufacturers from installing competing
>> operating systems and software on new computers; providing OS upgrades
>> that alter and/or nullify existing programs; and failing to provide
>> sufficient information to allow competing free software distributors
>> to inter-operate their wares with Windows.
This is true but also generally irrelevant to a lawyerly
type, I would think. (There might be some out there who
would be ultra-ethical and analyze everything from the
pencils and paperclips that they buy to ensure they're
not made in objectional countries/with slave labor/using
poisonous-to-the-Earth manufacturing methods, to the
software they use and the business practices of the
companies creating/sup****ting such, of course -- but most
lawyers, like most others, just want to get the job done,
methinks.)
>> <SNIP>
>
> Lawyers do not like to re-learn things.
> To do the same thing, a different way,
> is nuts to them.
The definition of insanity is expecting a different
result while repeatedly asking a question. [*]
>
> They also do not want to sit and figure out linux.
> Not gonna happen. Many have a system that works,
> and do not want it to change. This is their money.
>
> You do not have Legal templates for different courts
> in OO. (this is different from pleading paper.)
>
> Cheaper to buy MS and Bit Defender then relearn linux.
> Time is money.
There have been re****ts that Microsoft Word leaves crap
in a do***ent, if one takes and copies one client's do***ent,
deletes everything in it (using <Ctrl-A> <DELETE>, or
just selecting everything using the mouse), and then types
in a do***ent for a new client.
This is easily forestalled by using good do***ent
management practices (specifically, creating a new do***ent
every time), though hopefully one can ensure that the
template is clean.
[*] except for questions like "What time is it?" or
"Is the weather sunny?", of course. ;-)
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#191, ewill3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
sucks efficiently, but Windows just blows around
a lot of hot air and va****.
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