On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Zak B. Elep wrote: .. > Brief digression. Now, I won't try to elaborate on the 'inherent > superiority' bits there as I think everyone knows that (except perhaps > santa claus ;) but rather on the 'inherent *inferiority*' the two > development models (FOSS and PACS) both have: _userbase_.
Everybody knows what? That OSS is superior to closed source? I don't believe so. It was someone much smarter than me (Brian Behlendorf I think) who said that FOSS is good for infrastructure, but once you get into vertical applications, FOSS falls down. I don't know how true that assertion is, but the gist of the rest of your message seems to be, people gravitate to that which "scratches their itch." Whether that is FOSS or proprietary. Which is as it should be. I just simply think that FOSS empowers the /smart/ end-user. The average end-user simply couldn't care less about freedom; but they certainly care about free-as-in-beer. --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
