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Originally posted by HibbeeBoy:
I agree with you, it needs to discussed. Sometimes on this board though, there is just a mentality to shout people down with no thought. I suspect that a lot posters on here just don't understand corporate culture. I don't know if anyone even understood what happened during the course of this thread. Look at the number of posts on this thread, one of the busiest threads for some time. Mainly because ZooLoo just wanted to shout me down rather than nurture debate and discussion. I cannot even think about directing my peers to this site under these conditions. I hate M$ as much as the next guy but I can't come in to work on a Monday morning and say, "Right folks, I've never liked Microsoft so I've ditched it for something else." It has to be part of an implentation plan and requires a change to infratructure. I'm pretty much sold on Linux, so the Mozilla issue doesn't solve my long term objectives of removing Microsoft from the picture, I just don't see a big return from beating the users over the head to use Mozilla when they will use Exploder come what may. In fact, I went to one of my "power" users with Mozilla and they pretty much nixed it out of hand.
It's a tough sell but it can be done and it will take time.
I agree again and I believe that the key-phrase is in your last sentence, which I'll of course second. That's exactly the reason why we created sites like
promote-opensource or
openopen. They are of course very new and under intensive construction, that is content-wise, but we really hope on spreading the word. Perhaps you could direct your peers on them, and better yet contribute yourself. Anyway, I'm a bit off subject, but you get my drift (I hope).
PS I don't believe that zooloo had any intention of shouting you down. I think that he misunderstood your post nothing more.
