Hello, Don't know how many saw this - `Linux: it's the Desktop, Stupid!' (http://theregister.co.uk/content/53/31435.html)
Food for thought maybe, given recent threads about ease of use issues ? Maybe we are all so used to using Linux as it is that we have lost sight of what is required to attract new users, especially those who simply `use' computers and are not interested in the slightest in `goto a consol and start up vi.....' !!! If I didn't have such a happy outlook I might feel that we are being got at ! If Linux / OSS survives being made illegal and massive lawsuits for patent / copyright infingements then they are goiing to get us on usability studies !!! :-) Maybe it's about time that IBM received a little dig along the lines `you put 1 Billion $ into Linux, now how about doing the same for Linux on the Desktop !'. Owen
