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 use and aimed at unsophisticated
end-users are not synonyms. As far as easy to use I would include
many open-source tools - from programming libraries, to languages,
to tools, to editors, to operating systems. They meet the needs
of their intended users and are no more difficult to use than
their commercial counterparts where they exist. Admittedly some
of them build on a different paradigm to that which some users
who have grown up on Windows are used to but that is yet another
issue.
As for end-user tools we have Firefox and OpenOffice leading the
way. Many people blog on an open-source blogging engine. I know
many people from a non-technical background who use Audacity and
Scribus. Of course none of these has the market share of the
major player that has been established for 15 years or so. However
they do have significant market share in their application space
which indicates that ease-of-use to end-users isn't that much of
an issue.
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