-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Juan Alberto Cirez wrote: > Gustin, > > I see this will be a long day. > > First off, my criticism was directed specifically at GNU/Linux on the > Desktop space. Second, I was not questioning anyone intelligence. I am
I did not interpret your remarks in this manner. In no way was I personally offended. > sure that most (if not all) of the members of this list do not fall into > the "average user" category. For most (if not all) of us working with > GNU/Linux (specially after a little while) is like second-nature. At > this point we have either figure out most of the tricks to make things > work; or know where to go to get that information. Almost everyone, to a > man, to responded to my post have replied based on their experience > (and thus missing the point). > > If GNU/Linux is so easy and transparent; then why is it that Windows > dominate the market. The vast majority of people who use desktop That has to do with marketing and business practices. People buy a computer that Windows on it. There was no mass move to put XP on netbooks, they were selling better than the Asus estimates and spawned about a dozen clones. MS worked hard to have XP installed instead of Linux, these practices are well documented and have nothing to do with technical merit or usability. > computers do not have a clue how it works (and they like it that way). > For the most part, using a windows machine will allow you to do the work > you need to do, without having a clue how it gets done. Not until > GNU/Linux can offer a similar experience will it market share increase > and by the looks of it, the opposite is happening. To say that GNU/Linux > for the masses is not its stated goal is plain idiotic. Only wide spread > use will ensure ongoing funding for the open source projects that make > up the GNU/Linux distros. Only wide spread acceptance will ensure there > is a GNU/Linux in the near future. > Wrong. Only active contributers matter. As long as there people like Aaron Seigo writing the code, and as long as there are people and companies doing QA and documentation, GNU/Linux is not going anywhere. Mass acceptance does not matter. Apple has had similar numbers to Linux on the Desktop for years, they did not go away and show no signs of disappearing. Again it is not technical merit (Apple products are also piles of crap, it just looks pretty). The only thing that really worries me are so called copyright reforms, software patents, and DMCA-like legislation. This is not to say that reforms are not needed, but I fear that the wrong changes will be made. Again, politics, not merit are what scares me. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpWdQgACgkQwRXgH3rKGfP1HQCglappjfj1n0k2i7aydOr4Nc70 ykMAnj6E6bkCur7jtPY30TYdDlgBxfW5 =KBk6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
