software freedom and choice (was Re: [Discuss] excuse me?)

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-08-15 14:47-0700 R. Langkamer wrote:

> On 8/15/07 6:48 AM, pw wrote:
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> <snip>
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>> Getting people to work long enough outside
>> of their narrow range of experience is the problem there.
>> 
>> People tend to learn one way of doing things and then
>> stop learning. ie: windows, photoshop, dreamweaver, McDonald's,
>> Pepsi (<---Stallman), Matlab, R, Octave, linux.... etc
>> 
>> There are, of course, only so many hours in a day. It's
>> impossible to try every package or know every package well
>> enough to always get the best one, as opposed to the one you're
>> used to using. It becomes more economical, at some point, to stick
>> with the stone axe rather than spending the time to drop-forge
>> a chainsaw.
>
>
> 	I agree with these words. Getting people to try something different 
> is near impossible after a certain age.

Didn't you mean below a certain age?  :-)

Seriously, it has nothing to do with age.  Some people handle change well,
others do not.  It is as simple as that.

Alan (note this is the OTHER Alan.... :-) )

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