It is kind of funny to follow this discussion ,because in one hand I am sure
that linux community is a very skillful.
On the other it is really really very difficult to fight its naive attitude
concerning business applications.
People prefer Window because of 2 main reasons:
1) Long ago MS has turned every single home to its Beta site (of course now
they would like also to collect the money but that is another
story).
2) As a consequence support on MS is much better,
Just a little example from my own working experience.
As an open minded company we have suggested Linux to some of our main
customers on a product that we usually support on MS.
Everything was really smooth, however when we run across issues you
usually stuck with them for a very significant amount of time.
One example is the problem we have posted here about a pdf printout which
we needed to convert to pcl but resulted in a smaller size
of printing area for some reason.
Those little things are keeping you away for Linux, because it consume too
much energy .
I hope this explains a little why people prefer Windows although we
personally would like to stay on Linux but also to stay alive.
Israel
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Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 2:59 PM
To: Uri Even-Chen
Cc: Ilya Konstantinov; Linux-IL
Subject: Re: Why most people prefer Windows
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
> Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
>> If software freedom is meaningless to you, 95% of the time non-free
>> software gives you higher value (assuming you have the money :)
>
> I think that's why most people prefer Windows, MS Office and other
> non-free softwares. Most people don't care about software freedom, they
> care about ease of use and performance. If a non-free software is
> easier to use or has more features, people will use it. It's the same
> with any product, not only software. People care about functionality,
> ease of use and price. Freedom is not an issue.
In the context of a power user and professional applications free access
to code and a liberal licese ARE the keys to low cost and usability.
Peter
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