[Wolves] Now I know what Vista hell is!!!!

[Dave Morley]

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 13:24 +0000, Zeth wrote:
> On 18/01/2008, Chris Fox <chris at robotninja.net> wrote:
> > I disagree. "Venting" about other OSes - especially in the form of
> > purile M$-bashing - is probably setting back the Free software movement
> > by a good 5 years in terms of mainstream recognition and non-enthusiast
> > adoption.
> 
> I agree that unfounded MS-bashing is pointless. However, I don't think
> that your assertion can be proved. What does it mean to "set.. back ..
>  by a good 5 years"? I think the problem is not perception but total
> obscurity. It is not that people are perceiving the free software
> movement as being a bunch of angry losers, the problem is that they
> have no idea that we exist at all.
> 
> I think the process of adoption is going well, perhaps not as well as
> Windows 95 was adopted, but the trend is there and we are slowly
> gaining momentum, however it is still an exponential problem. If we
> say that the free software movement started with a few people and then
> doubled at a certain rate, it still takes a long time to get out of
> the shadows. Going from 0.1% to over 5% (6.4%), takes 6 doubles. While
> going from 5% to over 50% only takes three doubles.
> 
> > It makes the Linux community look like unprofessional, childish idiots,
> 
> Early Microsoft operating systems had a reputation for being a hobby
> toy used by children for computer games. The looks are rather
> irrelevant, it's what the software can do that is important. Does
> Microsoft care what it looks like when it ends in court every other
> week? It seems not.
> 
> >those behind the various Linux desktop projects (Gnome,
> >KDE, etc, as well as distro teams) should focus on implementing features
> >based on their own merits rather than "well OS X / Vista does it, so we
> should too"
> 
> I agree 100%. Windows finally got corporate adoption because of one
> 'killer app', the graphical spreadsheet. The problem for Linux is that
> every time there is some cool new open source application, the first
> thing that happens is that it is ported to Windows. So Linux can never
> have the 'killer app'.
> 
> So I think what will happen is that Microsoft and Linux won't really
> lock horns all the other large software vendors have either joined the
> free software/open source community or been bought/killed by
> Microsoft.
> 
> Best Wishes,
> Zeth
> 
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Just saw this which pretty much sums everything up
http://blog.nixternal.com/2008.01.16/interesting-observations/

Again these are personal observations.  Those are aloud honest
governor ;)
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