Let's answer two arguments in one swoop.
On Saturday, 8 בOctober 2005 01:53, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
> If they get used to something, they don't want to change.
This is generally true but is a weak argument. As an example
note how quick everybody converted from WfW-3.11 to Win95
(and it had a totally different interface).
This means that clueless users can be converted on certain
conditions, which leads us to...
On Saturday, 8 בOctober 2005 01:43, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
> People care about functionality, ease of use and price.
Yes, sure.... That's why in the beginning of the 90's they "chose"
using the user-friendly Windows-3.0 over QuarterDeck-Deskview (or OS/2).
[for the younger among us, that's a joke. Win-3.0 had a terrible
user interface in comparison to the other systems. The only reason
I didn't mention Mac, is because I want to keep hardware differences
away from the comparison].
I agree most people don't care about freedom, but the same population
don't "choose" software like you describe -- they simply use what
is forced upon them by some external force (you haven't read the
"finding-of-facts" document I pointed you to -- otherwise you wouldn't
make the naive assumpsion that people "choose" their OS).
The external force up to now is MS monopoly, but there are many other
possible forces that are playing to our favor: Government policy
(e.g: Massachusetts), ISV bias (e.g: try to get HPC software for Windows),
price to the OEM (as hardware price is lower, the software becomes a
bigger issue), etc.
Of course we are fighting an uphill battle, but there is already a
big change (e.g: more than 96,000,000 Firefox downloads. Even if only 10%
of them actually uses it...) -- keep repeating the same arguments I
used to hear 10 years ago is simply nonsense.
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