| Weblog: | Linux Desktop - An Analyst's Nightmare | |
| Subject: | Countering bias with bias? | |
| Date: | 2005-09-19 15:06:27 | |
| From: | kollivier | |
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You talk about 'discrimination' against Desktop Linux and NDL, but yet you draw lots of conclusions without telling us how you got there. (i.e. "my research shows...") Really, reading this argument doesn't tell me why Linux is 'ready', it only tells me you think it is, and perhaps that it is ready *for you*, and that everyone else is wrong due to 'bias'. But you never *prove* the critics wrong with facts or evidence, so you give me little reason to believe your perspective is any more 'valid' than the people you say are biased, etc.
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Countering bias with bias?
2005-09-19 16:56:20 Tom Adelstein |
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If you couldn't use NLD as your primary desktop, then you can't do what a patient recovering from neorologial surgery did. In fact, that person not only found it as an aid to recovery, but also was offered a system analyst position at a major hospital. Prior to that, the same person could not master OS X or Windows XP before the illness.
Thanks for grain of sand in an endless desert of remarks from trolls on the Internet.
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Countering bias with bias?
2005-09-19 19:34:15 kollivier [Reply | View]
Wow. Are you serious? :) So my 'practical' concerns and dissatisfactions with using NDL are nothing because some person, somewhere, who had some sort of problem, can use NDL but couldn't use Mac OS X or Win?
Frankly, you're not only insulting me, you're insulting this person by suggesting that this person was somehow a special case. (i.e. that they are less smart than others, somehow disadvantaged, etc.) Whatever condition the person may have had, s/he must have been in excellent control of their mental facilities and quite intelligent if s/he was offered a systems analyst position. So I don't see the relevance of the surgery part.
Of course, this is all speculation anyways because I don't know who you're talking about or what the circumstances were, nor why the person could not "master" OS X or Windows XP. So this anecdote does not in any real way prove the 'superiority' of NDL, and I don't even see what it intends to prove, except perhaps how you feel.
If you think you can sell managers and enterprises with a moving anecdote, "it works for me" reasoning, and a focus on attacking the messenger whenever criticism is raised, well, good luck with that.
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These prejudices in most cases are relatively harmless, but then there can be cases where these can be extremely dangerous. Take Hitler who presented rationale for his actions, and even sold this to the general populace and got voting support, so they must have thought his rationale made sense. Here is a sample of the logic: It is OK to dispossess the Jews of their property because that is the LAW. But then who made this law??
You think this insanity is all in the past, then look at todays Islamic LAW and the rights of women. Or even some of todays American LAWs. The way I see it with all the flaming that goes on on the internet, that prejudice and insanity is alive and well. It is that just as long as it is focused on OSes, it may not evolve into road rage, or war, or something more harmful.
bigpicture.