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James MacLean
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James MacLean : Übersicht
07-Dec-2001/09-Jan-07
Übersicht
 James
MacLean lives in Nova Scotia and works for the Department of Education
as manager of technical services. He says,
We use Linux all over the place at work. It was accepted early on for
anything we could get it to do.
This makes for a good balance between work and Linux. Plus, he gets
paid. Not surprisingly, then, James believes ``all the financial
activity is part of what makes Linux fun to be a part of.'' He doesn't
resent or fear the money influence. Instead, he welcomes the
commercialization of Linux, seeing it as ``an honest way to support
Linux.'' James says, ``the biggest addition [needed for Linux] would be
more applications that are currently supported on Windows.''
He expects Linux to grow on the desktop, and believes that ``over time,
it will leave fewer reasons to not deploy it as a desktop solution.''
The only thing he sees that could ultimately hurt Linux development
would be if the leadership in Linux diminished. In case we forgot, James
reminds us that ``taking over the world'' is still the goal, and he
thinks it is highly unlikely that the ``people and parts that make up
the heart of Linux'' will curtail their devotion to its development.
James discovered Linux through a friend who had seen mention of a ``free
UNIX-type OS'' in Byte magazine. Not quite thirty and newly employed by
the government, he worked to automate the mainframe connection in order
to collect data. He was ``trying to make use of OS/2 2.0 on a 4MB
386DX33 ... but missed the flexibility of UNIX.'' OS/2 was too slow, and
Windows wasn't production-ready: ``It crashed too much with the
applications I tried to use.'' It's reassuring to know that some things
never change. James eventually found Linux.
He doesn't have much time these days to work on Linux outside of the
office, but he does appreciate all the effort being put forth by others.
James does custom things around the office to meet the specific needs of
his section. This work generally does not find its way outside the
office, but someday it might. He points out,
It used to be that even in a crude form you could put things out for
others, but now I get shy, because if it will not work out-of- the-box,
then I have to be ready for storms of e-mails.
James can be reached at
macleajb@trademart-1.ednet.ns.ca.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4037.
Quellennachweis Abbildung:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/.../4037f10.gif.
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