On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 14:13 -0800, Corey Burger wrote: > On Dec 7, 2007 4:17 AM, Przemysław Kulczycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's a nice article on the net: > > Dethroning Ubuntu -- What Would It Take? > > http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/31771_3714986_1 > > It talks about strong and weak points of Ubuntu and about making a > > successful product in general. > > It could be added to the next UWN. > > I agree it is an interesting article, but I wouldn't call it nice > simply because it has some major holes. Most of the discussion of > pre-installed Linux is somewhat correct but the the key thing to > remember that is most hardware manufacturers are currently throwing > Linux at the wall to see what sticks. I widely expect there to be > consolidation in the next year or so. Building a good OS is hard and > expensive work. This is where Ubuntu Mobile can come in. I suspect > that the UI for Ubuntu Mobile would work great on an Asus EEE, for > instance. > > The 2nd major gap covers that of other Linux distros. He talks about > lot of technical matters and ignores the community and the very > sucessful community building aspects that surround Ubuntu. It is a > major reason for our success. You will note how OpenSUSE and Fedora > are copying large parts of our community infrastructure, because it > works. > > The last line in the article cast the whole in a bad light. It talks > about how Flash and Java "violate the GPL". This is utterly false. > Ubuntu (or any distro) could have and some have, shipped non-free > Flash or Java if they wanted. It violates no licenses. However, it > does violate our ethical stance. Nor does he talk about all the free > Java work being done right now. > > Basically, in sum, a poorly researched article with a few good points. > > Corey I am so glad someone else wrote what I was thinking. I thought that maybe I was reading a different article. I am not going to add too much to what Corey already said except that the article, imho, was pretty much saying that a average or lower than average user wouldn't be able to use Ubuntu as easily as windows. This is just not true. My 90 year old grandfather is completely converted and he is the closest to a below average user as you can get. He loves it and doesn't look back. Things just work for him and he doesn't have to buy internet security every year. Most all of my family has converted because of our conversion of him and I am the only technical one of them all. In most cases people wouldn't know how to setup MS out of the box either. Someone else does it for them and then they use it. I feel that mentality is not a bad one for a linux disto either. My gpa doesn't ever have to touch anything to configure. Plus if he wants another game or application he can usually find and install from the add/remove panel. It is actually the technical people that get frustrated with linux. They don't want to learn something new (new as in a different altogether) way at looking at an OS. My two cents...
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