On 12/21/06, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Indeed there are and the reasons are very well known to us and has absolutely nothing to do with usability, quality or developer ability as the rest of your mail seems to suggest.
Guess again. I may accept this argument of better quality software in case of Firefox, KDE, etc. but definitely not in case of OOo. I use OOo because of my passion for FOSS and not because it is better than MS Word. The ms document format may be crap but that does not matter to the end user.
> Do note that software "mukti" doesn't count for much to > end users. Hell, in case of Indians it doesn't count for much for > many developers even. And your point is?
My point is that the FSF puts forward software mukti as the prime-most point to users when they don't really care.
The main reason is that the web is "reasonably" standards compliant primarily cause bill-e-baba thought that the internet was rubbish and was late in getting his trash on to the servers.
Not really. Even though Microsoft was late to jump onto the internet they had made a decent enough mark on it to have so many activex driven sites and sites with notices like "Best viewed in Internet Explorer". There has been a major shift from those days thanks to firefox. -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.tk http://siddhesh.phpnet.us -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
