Rick Welykochy wrote:
My apoligies to Rick, this post was not directed
to you personally, it was yours I lazily hit the
reply to.
My point, that I so well failed to make is that
whilst linux is coming into the mainstream there
is a growing perception, or expectation that all
applications are simply going to work " out of the
box". This is not the case with many products and
the same can be said of the windows world, as many
bug fixes for products eg MYOB are not discovered
till they are put into release.
I recently trialed opera web browser and was impressed
with its speed and functionality, however it is a beta
and buggy, yet shows much promise. netscape on the other
hand has a name for software in the windows world and
has performed admirably in the face of competition from
MS. However, netscape lacks the resources of MS and
when it opened its source to the linux/open source
community it was a big step forward and other major
developers took notice.
I use Netscape as an example here (as per topic) but
I feel this is endemic now within the linux community.
I would implore all who read this to get behind open
source companies and to join a list or two, whether
netscape, kernel or xmms or whatever and give bug
reports or submit patches. Not everyone can do this
but any constructive feed back is appreciated from
developers
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Kind regards
Kevin Waterson
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