Hi All, I went through the article. I think everyone on this list should read it. It is a pretty long document & so I skipped many of the comments, which outstretch the article's own length. Well, the person has got a point. But, there is one(or a couple, probably) point that I want to put down here. I didn't see it in the comments & if it's there, it's hard to spot, owing to the extraordinary length. Here it goes.
The very nice article primarily stresses the point that Developing And/Or Porting OSS to Windows or, MAC OS X will result into more usage of these OSs & which may mean even lesser users of OS Desktops. I have two(it's a couple all right) different things to say about it. Firstly, Aaron stresses more on people using Operating Systems for the applications available on them. Might be true. But this may mean, if stretched a bit, that people use applications for the various facilities & capabilities it provides them with. So, here, the point is not whether the software free or not, or even the practices used by its manufacture, but the *"Quality"* of the Software. e.g. people start using Firefox because it's better than IE right now. They will keep using it, only if it has an upper edge over IE all the time. So, the point is not whether the software is used on Windows or Linux/BSD, but whether the software is of excellent quality or not. Secondly, to stress the point even further, if the software is of high quality, then we shouldn't care on which Operating System it's going to be used, as long it stays legal. I mean, is OSS really about Openness or about preventing Microsoft from selling their products? If it is Openness, we should really be open to what software people choose & which Operating System they use to run them on. The question, in the end, really rests with the excellence of the software. Let me end by hopiing that excellent OSS like OOo, Mozilla & Eclipse(the best) gets even better to compete firmly with Proprietary software. Regards, Viraj On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 03:03:22 +0000 (GMT), A G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2004/12/how-to-kill-open-source-on-desktop.html > > -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
