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Well, in all honesty, sometimes when I think of someone as clueless,
there is a certain negative emotion that goes along with it. However,
the point is more that THEY don't like to be called clueless -- both
because, for some reason they take it as an insult, and also because
there are many out there who "know enough to be dangerous" and think
they know more than they really do. So I have to be careful not to say
anything to them that sounds like I think that, and to make sure that
people in my group have the same discipline.
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You would be surprised how many users with root access are also
clueless. I used the word "enterprise" very broadly. It applies to
large companies/institutions with sophisticated IT departments, but it
also applies to small to medium organizations who said to themselves,
"Gee what's this Linux thing I keep hearing about -- maybe we ought to
get one of those." And they end up with administrators who also don't
really know all the ins and outs they need to in order to create a
secure environment.
In a way, it's a price that Linux has paid for its growing acceptance.
The user community is not what it used to be.
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I can't speak about every different country, but I would say that you
are right about Eastern Europe. But also in the US and Canada we have
plenty of adoption on the workstation.
Novell,
putting
to
users
spread of
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Pony's
designing
There are many gradations of users between the kernel pro and the
11-year-old girl.
One is the guy right out of college who really likes computers and he
gets a job at a place where they use Linux, and he does a web search and
finds this really cool application that might help him do his job
better, so he installs it on the spot. Uh-oh.
One is the guy who's been working there for a while and the head of IT,
tired of spending so much on Windows, tells him to install Linux on a
few machines, so he follows the instructions and he's now the
administrator.
The fact is that there are MILLIONS out there, and when you have
millions of anything, you are going to have lots of different kinds of
behavior that are hard to predict ahead of time.
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