> What is really beginning to worry me is that there is too much choice of > applications in the Open Source world. Instead of working to make what > we have better and bite into bug #1 and give users a base set of > applications they can get comfortable with and trust, we are going to > leave maybe switchers to Linux with the mass confusion of which > application is best and sticking with Windows. Yes, we seem to be slipping back into the bad old days... I remember one of my first Linux installs, a paid for box set of an early Suse release. 5 different word processors, 6 calculators, 4 browsers, 7 text editors, etc, etc...
It was all stupidly confusing... It was one of the first things that struck me about Breezy... Oh look - only one browser, only one word processor, only one editor, only one etc etc... How very sensible... Now, Firefox, Epiphany, Midori, Amaya, Dillo, Galeon, SeaMonkey and even Links/Lynx and W3M... And now Chrome... not to mention all the backend stuff like webkit/gecko/java/javascript/SWF/etc/etc... Makes you wonder how much could be achieved in just the browser arena, if all that effort all pulled in the same direction.... Argh... -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
