[plug] Gold ! :)

[Adam Hewitt]

On 16/12/2003, at 11:54 PM, Craig Ringer wrote:

>> I'm not inclined toward advocacy (actually, to tell the truth, the 
>> risk
>> of Linux advocacy is one of my original reasons for avoiding PLUG)
>
> Indeed. I'm of the practical persuasion - that is to say, I use 
> whatever best fits my needs (considering _all_ needs and concerns). 
> It's handy that in my current employment that happens to fit well with 
> what I prefer to use personally and know best :-)
>
> Advocacy, especially when taken too far, can be it's own worst enemy. 
> The best way to convince someone that your pet project is a _bad_ 
> thing is to push them into using it when it doesn't fit their needs or 
> isn't ready yet. This is why I'm against mandatory OSS legislation 
> (see old posts).
>
> Craig Ringer

I was subcontracting to an ISP in Sydney where the guy who owns it (and 
does all the tech stuff) was completely from a windows background. One 
day he got sick and tired of Windows crashing and getting viruses all 
the time, so he looked around for alternatives. He then found linux and 
thought the sun shone from Linus' arse. So almost immediately he paid 
someone (me) to set him up a linux server to run everything for his 
ISP...but he doesn't know how to use linux except for in an X GUI 
environment. This has forced me to write web based scripts for him to 
be able to configure every single thing on his machine with a web 
browser and point 'n' click.

This is clearly a *bad* case for advocacy...the guy drives me 
absolutely insane!!

Adam.