Very good points, Douglas! > Because the operating system market in particular is unstable - it > collapses onto one provider. There are several factors driving this:
[3 good ones removed] - The reluctance of people to throw away their previous training efforts to use something different which still only has the same functionality and therefore doesn't give them anything more. There's no incentive. It's a first come first served. > So this is the "reality", like it or not. You can choose to support > Microsoft, or you can choose to support Linux. Nice to say, but that doesn't help an employee charged by his boss to implement XYZ when the Linux choice simply doesn't exist. The Microsoft one always exists. > To break the unstable cycle, > Linux needs applications. The commercial software world is not (yet) > interested in providing them. So to support Linux, we all need to support > OSS applications Yes. But we also need to support those commercial applications which are available! As you say, Linux needs applications to become established. Snubbing commercial vendors is working in Microsoft's favour. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
