M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
William Stein wrote:
Well I'm trying to directly compete with heavily financed commercial
systems. I think you are wrong that one cannot win. Linux, Firefox,
OpenOffice, etc., are all examples of direct competition with heavily
financed commercial systems, where they have all won, at least
where "win" means establish a large solid user base and be a viable
alternative to MS Windows, MS Internet Explorer, and MS Office.
Well ... if you mean "*Red Hat* Linux has won a significant market
share in servers", I agree. However, I don't think as a user that
either Firefox or OpenOffice are of sufficient quality or maturity to
be used on a Windows desktop, and I don't consider what they have
accomplished to be a "win". They just aren't viable alternatives for
anything but casual home use. I use them on Linux because they are
there, but they aren't on my Windows desktop at work and probably
never will be.
I disagree with you on the statement
" I don't think as a user that either Firefox or OpenOffice are of
sufficient quality or maturity to be used on a Windows desktop"
I won't use anything else!
Doug Stewart
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