Re: [backstage] An interview with Mark Taylor, Pres. of UK Open Source Consortium

2007-10-25 Thread ~:'' ありがとうございました 。
David, my apologies as it seems that once again my comments lack some clarity. where are the easy-to-use tools? Ubuntu and Gnome are hardly mainstream... the most significant issue is that no open source project outside possibly wikipedia is truly popular. NB wikipedia is not an application

Re: [backstage] An interview with Mark Taylor, Pres. of UK Open Source Consortium

2007-10-25 Thread Andy Leighton
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:34:05AM +0100, ~:'' wrote: David, my apologies as it seems that once again my comments lack some clarity. where are the easy-to-use tools? Ubuntu and Gnome are hardly mainstream... You seem very confused. Easy to

Re: [backstage] An interview with Mark Taylor, Pres. of UK Open Source Consortium

2007-10-25 Thread David Greaves
~:'' wrote: David, my apologies as it seems that once again my comments lack some clarity. where are the easy-to-use tools? Ubuntu and Gnome are hardly mainstream... the most significant issue is that no open source project outside possibly wikipedia is truly popular. NB

Re: [backstage] An interview with Mark Taylor, Pres. of UK Open Source Consortium

2007-10-25 Thread Frank Wales
~:'' ありがとうございました。 wrote: where are the easy-to-use tools? Ubuntu and Gnome are hardly mainstream... By 'mainstream', do you mean 'commonplace among computer users' or 'commonplace among the general public'? Also, are you conceding that Ubuntu and Gnome are easy to use? the most significant

RE: [backstage] An interview with Mark Taylor, Pres. of UK Open Source Consortium

2007-10-25 Thread Darren Stephens
For a given value of popular of course. There are many open source projects which are extremely popular in their own contexts. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 8:34 AM To:

Re: [backstage] An interview with Mark Taylor, Pres. of UK Open Source Consortium

2007-10-25 Thread Adam
~:'' wrote: where are the easy-to-use tools? Ubuntu and Gnome are hardly mainstream... the most significant issue is that no open source project outside possibly wikipedia is truly popular. NB wikipedia is not an application or tool. First, there are thousands of open source

Re: [backstage] An interview with Mark Taylor, Pres. of UK Open Source Consortium

2007-10-25 Thread vijay chopra
On 25/10/2007, ~:'' ありがとうございました。 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, the most significant issue is that no open source project outside possibly wikipedia is truly popular. NB wikipedia is not an application or tool. That would explain the unpopularity of a LAMP development envionment then

Re: [backstage] An interview with Mark Taylor, Pres. of UK Open Source Consortium

2007-10-25 Thread Michael Sparks
On Thursday 25 October 2007 08:34, ~:'' ありがとうございました。 wrote: the most significant issue is that no open source project outside   possibly wikipedia is truly popular. I'd hardly say that the internet, email, web, DNS etc are hardly not mainstream and not popular. It's next to impossible to use