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Re: information
careful, I'm going to speak my mind now.
<mood mode="sincere")
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Nahum Greenberg wrote:
> The real answer to gideon noah is yes and... yes. There are plenty of native
Mr. Greenberg... as much as I love Linux, I simply can't say it's a 100%
substitution for a disktop, DEFINITELY not for a Hebrew-needing
inDUHvidual. I sugest you tone down the salesman-hype-talk tone before you
use it with PF1's customers, or else many people will be very unhappy with
what they end up with...
> puzzles, etc. In addition, the emulation of DOS (dosemu) and Windows 3.1(Wabi)
Wabi is commercial, costs twice as much as Windows, why would anyone buy
it?
> There are Linux e-mail clients and text editors that support Hebrew, with
any of them with Logical Hebrew support, to read mail written by Microsoft
mailers? thought so...
> Netscape you can surf Hebrew sites. Furthermore, I am pretty sure that
> you can find decent word processor with Hebrew support that can run
> under Wabi or some Win'95 emulator. Yeah, sure, it probably won't be
> your favorite Microsoft Word.
a. "some win95 emulator" doesn't exist yet. check your facts before
missleading. WINE is FAR from achieving that.
b. "I'm pretty sure" is not good enough. test it on some machine at PF1
before selling soap bubbles to a client.
> Besides, let's not forget about the Executor -- the Mac emulator. With this
> software you can run Mac application on Linux!
a. He's a win95 user.
b. it won't run Hebrew MacOS anyway. ever tried it?
c. there are so many other packages in the common distributions that are
so much more impressive than executor...
> even stumble into some IE-"enhanced" Web site. On the 'net everything
> is possible. The point is, that you can reach almost 100% of existing
> Web content (including Hebrew!) using Linux internet software. The
try Microsoft's site...
btw, solid rumors say Microsoft is almost done with an MSIE port for
Linux, I kid you not.
> surfing from Linux is much more enjoyable and safe (sic!) than from
> Windoze, because you do not have to reboot now and then.
and you don't run as root...
> Enjoy Ms-free environment!
can't. lots of things are still only availale in Windows. read the latest
article with Linux in BOOT magazine, he openly says they have the best
office suite, and he uses Powerpoint himself when needed.
> PF1 Systems Ltd. <-- the people who brought the Official RedHat Linux
> 5.1 in Israel
so since I'm on a roll:
a. get the grammer error in your signature fixed. you're entitled not to
know Hebrew as an Israeli maybe, but as a salesman of techie software
you should sharpen your image (especially since I'm not the first one
on this list to turn your attention to it)
b. as a netizen and veteran poster, I find your posted lines annoyingly
long, set your mailer to wrap at 72 characters, as commonly done.
c. as a member of this list, I'd also ask you to refrain from quoting the
entire message you answer (Like you did with the esteemed Mr. Volovic)
and instead quote just the relevant lines and answer each subject as it
comes. for a pretty good example read this message again.
finally, not to end on a negative note: I'm happy a brand name such as
PF1 are importing and promoting RedHat, the Israeli market needs a strong
back to support microsoft alternatives. I hope you are prepared to add
on value to the package, such as professional support people (Linux is
going to get much more popular Real Soon Now, faster than you think in the
US, it will HAVE to infect Israel too one day), as well as added Hebrew
packages and better logical r-to-l support (hiring Eli Marmor would not be
a bad idea for the job), or at least translate some FAQs, HOWTOs and the
RedHat manual to Hebrew, this will all help Linux immensly! :-)
</mood>