Out the Window (WSJ)

Posted May 27, 2006 17:25 UTC (Sat) by colobikeguy (guest, #38027)
In reply to: Out the Window (WSJ) by drag
Parent article: Out the Window (WSJ)

I agree with drag.

I work as a hack admin in between drafting patents at a small law firm. I consider myself a linux newbie although I have been tinkering with suse (9.2-10.1) for about two years now.

I would not recommend to my law firm to switch over to linux because of the issues the article noted. The end use profile at my firm is paid over 200 dollars an hour to type up applications and are usually under time crunch to get an application out THAT DAY. So, they get very irritated at small things like section breaks in documents, and would blow up at things like formatting changes between when going from MS Office to OpenOffice.

Personally, I prefer linux at home. I can't wait until I get the wireless on my laptop working. It is a very liberating and lovely operating system. My wife doesn't like linux. However, I am weaning her off of windows and getting her using suse 10.1 with gnome. Her and the kids did not like kde.

Any case, it is great that the linux community has now focused on desktop usability.

I would ABSOLUTELY love to be able to walk into the law firm and say without hesitation: if we upgrade to distro xxx on our server and distro xxx on our clients then we would save xxx dollars in IT costs, and be able to view the videos of inventions our clients send us, and work with our docketing system, and etc.

That hasnt happened yet.

Very truly yours,

colobikeguy

PS. We don't do software patents by the way. :) So PLEASE dont flame me.