On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
[snip]
> 10)
> "Improving Linux's support for multimedia is critical. Linux must do
> all the important things Windows does."
>
> Again, this is a very vague argument with no examples. As far a
> multimedia goes, I can't think of anything that Linux doesn't do.
> There are several major graphics programs, such as LightWave and 3DO
> that have been ported to Linux. There are plenty of music apps. There
> is a DVD player. There are games. What else does it need in the
> multimedia arena?
>
> All in all, I found this to be a poorly thought out article. The
> author says that this is his "plan" for Linux on the desktop. I don't
> see a plan at all. What I see is half thoughts. He makes complaints
> based on no imperical evidence of a real problem. I'm not saying that
> Linux is going to take over the desktop market tomorrow. There are
> some real problems facing Linux on the desktop, but the ones that he
> lists seem to be due to his own lack of education on the subject.
So what did you use to listen to Linus Torvalds interview on NPR ?
The whole W3 experience for Linux users is diminished. Although I usually
use this fact to argue to evil of proprietary data formats.
The problem with my argument is that one can counter with "But if I want my
audio player/video player/word processor/whatever to support this new feature
that my users really want, I have to extend the format."
Thankfully, lately I can respond "Heard of XML ?".
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