Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote:
20020502012707.PMUM13342.mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz@mta1">I like his comment:
"Now comes the one sentence I told you about, explaining why Linux is nowhere to be found on your average end-user non-geek desktop: The worldwide established standard data format for exchanging word processing documents is Microsoft Word files, and no Linux distribution I know of comes with an open source program that can handle them."
What a load of garbage, so lets imagine a world with MS Word support in linux, the majority of computer users (i.e. the non-technical non-geek types) who can't deal with installing windows let alone installing linux will flock in droves.... I don't think so.
jeremyb.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2002/05/02 Thu PM 12:12:53 GMT+12:00
To: CLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Why Linux isn't on the desktop yet
Great Article...and so true.... Who owns your data?? You or the vendor
of your proprietary data format??
http://www.linuxandmain.com/tech/robformats.html
Why Linux isn't on the desktop yet
By Rob Landley <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The answer to the title of this article is a single sentence, but you'll
have to read the whole article to understand it. The Linux community has
an amazing blind spot , and I'd like to rant about it a bit.
I keep bumping into programmers who think some program or other is
needed to change the world. They're wrong. "Linux just needs this one
program and then we'll be ready!" they cry. I generally want to slap
these people until they snap out of it (which is kind of hard to do
through an internet connection). They are making a fundamentally wrong
assumption. It's not about programs. It's about data.
Let me repeat that. Data formats are important. Programs are not.
Remainder of article at above link.
Great Article...and so true.... Who owns your data?? You or the vendor of your proprietary data format??
http://www.linuxandmain.com/tech/robformats.html
Why Linux isn't on the desktop yet
By Rob Landley
The answer to the title of this article is a single sentence, but you'll have to read the whole article to understand it. The Linux community has an amazing blind spot, and I'd like to rant about it a bit.
I keep bumping into programmers who think some program or other is needed to change the world. They're wrong. "Linux just needs this one program and then we'll be ready!" they cry. I generally want to slap these people until they snap out of it (which is kind of hard to do through an internet connection). They are making a fundamentally wrong assumption. It's not about programs. It's about data.
Let me repeat that. Data formats are important. Programs are not.
Remainder of article at above link.
