i chose 'C' the reasons are simple nokia has 35% market share u would buy a phone and go for NOKIA not because the government supports- it freaking well does not, not because it has fancy ads- other ads have an edge- so the plausible explanations are- -vendor lock used by microsoft or, -better and more easily usable applications no matter how you see it i see that the formal is not possible. As long as we are not good enough we can never convince people to follow us i mean , come on guys try mail merge in odt format and a 300 dpi project in gimp we lay just a lane back when we need to be two lanes ahead to make sure that people are willing to change so we need better applications and it cannot be easier to achieve than it is now lets get cracking we are the today and the tomorrow of the foss world lets not look at others to do our bidding FOSS rocx
On Sep 17, 8:56 am, bhaskar prasad Rimal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello Fossian, > > Ya, I also agree with Jwalanta 's view. we should think towards the quality. > If we have strong quality product ;ultimately the people will run behind > it.................. > > regards > Bhaskar > > Jwalanta Shrestha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all, > > i chose 'C' (Better applications). > > i'm a full time linux user n give a damn whether govt supports or public > likes it or not, but i strongly feel that FOSS world still needs quality apps > in the GUI part.. ya i know there are foss alternatives for almost all > proprietary apps but what about the quality?? > > jus for example, take OpenOffice.org. it works fine for normal text > processing, but when u try 2 do some serious things, say mail merge, it > really sucks.. another example is GIMP, u'll know it if u r seriously into > designing stuffs.. KU guys, i think u're goin 2 edit ur video on Windows.. > but also give linux/foss a try, u'll exactly know what i'm tryin 2 say here.. > > i know u all will start flaming on me, but before doin that stop dual > booting n move full time 2 foss for a week, u'll know.. i'm a full time > linux/foss user n have even convinced my lab instructor 2 accept my reports > done in octave instead of matlab, but i seriously feel that we need some > QUALITY here.. the day foss will outperform proprietary apps, ppl will start > using it even if government bans it.. > > no that doesn't mean i'm not satisfied with foss, it's been one of the joys > of my life. but jus my +1.. > > regards, > jwalanta. > > On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 11:06 -0700, Zephyr wrote: > I do agree nd have chosen the option A. brizika > > --------------------------------- > Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, > news, photos & more. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
