On 4/7/07, Robert Smits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Saturday 07 April 2007 11:11, Chris Cioffi wrote:
> On 4/6/07, Robert Smits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If they settle for Windows they already have. You haven't described
> > anything in Outlook that Kontact doesn't already deliver. Why waste all
> > that time reinventing the wheel?
>
> If all you're offering is another wheel why should I switch? And, of
> course, the question needs to be asked: if we don't want to waste
> time re-inventing the wheel why are there multiple PIMs for Linux?
> Why isn't there just 1 really good one?
Why does there have to be only one good choice? What's wrong with having two
good PIMs for Linux?
I don't know. You're the one not wanting to re-invent the wheel.
But, as far as this thread goes, most people don't want to have to
deal with choices. I suspect that's why MS has done so well with
Office: here's your office software, it has everything you need.
That's why OOo should have a full replacement for Outlook, so people
can see "Ah, here's my PIM, here's my word processor and here's my
spreadsheet. I'm good to go!"
> In the real world, software success is easily measured by the number
> of people using the product. Calling people deluded for using a
> product that meets their needs isn't likely to help your cause.
> Especially when by any reasonable measure your alternative is little
> more than a curiosity.
If it were only a curiosity, we'd never see the amount of movement we've seen
to open source software as we have in the last couple of years. And with
Microsoft abandoning the interests of its users to foist DRM laden and slower
Vista upon them, I suspect two things will happen. XP users will keep using
XP far longer than Microsoft expects, and far more people will switch to open
source software in general.
Interest in open source generically and _actual_adoption_of_OOo_ are 2
very different things. OSS has done a great job of producing server
side solutions. I don't think many people would argue that Linux,
Apache, and other OSS projects more-or-less run the Internet.
However, for end-user software I can only think of Firefox as
something to get on the radar of many non-geeks.
I haven't used Vista myself, but the few folks I've talked to say they
are now looking at either Mac OS X or desktop Linux.
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