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Re: translators

On Fri, 30 May 1997, Jim Pick wrote:

> I'd suggest we wait until Debian 2.0 before we invite a huge mass of
> "non-computer-literates" to start using Debian.  [...snip...]  I
> truly believe that we could build the best documented, easiest to
> learn, operating system out there.  :-)

IMHO not computer literate people won't use, I mean, won't install
Unix, cause it's too hard for them.  The announcement must be
addressed to computer literate people.  Most illiterate users can't
install Microsoft products on their boxes, let alone configure the
network.  They hire computer "professinals" to do it for them.  Yes,
they will be able to use Unix (Debian Linux for example), but it's
their sysadmins' job to convert them to this new religion.  What would
you say to a computer illiterate?  That we are 32 bit and multitasking
and have great networking and can run FTP/HTTP/mail/news/whatever
servers?  Will they get it?  The only thing they would understand is
that it's cheap, and then they would say, "if they're cheap, let alone
free, they're not so good, because if they were good, they were demand
more money for them".  IMHO you must talk to computer literates, even
DOS users who understand what they're doing.

Just my 0.07 shekels,
Vadik.

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Vadim Vygonets * vadik@cs.huji.ac.il * vadik@debian.org * Unix admin
The fish doesn't think, because the fish knows...  everything.
	-- Arizona Dream

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