On 6/11/06, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sure but this doesn't really answer the question of why bother? :) > > The goodness of software is in how well it serves people. Not in anything > else. It's not some kind of masturbatory exercise for its own sake.
Indeed, that's the point I was making! Saying "we have this software, how can we make people use it?" is backwards. Forwards would be "we have this software, what can we do with it that's useful?". The original summary it said: - Linux has only 5% share of the client market. Why so poor? - Do we let MS rule forever? I'm sure "How do we increase market share?" is not the right thing to be asking. Bryce is saying that RHEL or some other 'enterprise' desktop can offer such huge savings that it becomes worth it for companies to switch, and that is the useful thing it does. I'm not sure the numbers work for that, but can't prove it either way so whatever. And if the numbers do work that's not a useful thing for home/end users, so we're still looking for a purpose there. > So your question might as well be "why bother existing at all ??" That's not what I said. What I said was essentiall: given a finite number of hours, what's the best way to spend them? thanks -mike _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects
