tisdag 04 maj 2004 00:24 skrev Sergei Klink:
AFIU costs for testing in all possible distribution, kernel/glib combinations plus supplying frequent updates is too high and sale figures too low.
Why bother, then?
Fact of the matter is, that companies, that used to be the biggest market ... are using product copies, or cheaper alternatives. This applies to Windows, as well as Linux. The biggest "income" market for Windows is still the fact, that most computers come with it pre-installed. It has nothing to do with Windows being more stable than Linux, as we all know, if not by experience than by word, the famous blue screen, guru meditation, bombs and runtime errors on other platforms. On occasion, I go over to Windows (which is now Windows XP 64bit), to develop some windows application (in delphi) but only because the customer uses Windows and thinks he can't use anything but MS Excel, MS Word, etc. Not because these apps are superior, as the customer doesn't use 10% of their potential. This customer, is not a customer to make future plans on ... it's a customer to ignore, and what Linux needs to do is to introduce a new concept, not try and follow in the footsteps of Microsoft. Because 70% of the customers that use Windows, wouldn't buy it nor any of it's based products if it wasn't included with their computers ... and those companies that rely on Windows (small to medium sized) do that because to skip the learning curve of the user, and because they can run a pirated copy of most of the products anyways and copy to older machines, etc. Linux should, focus less on compatibility imo ... especially these days, when every script kiddie is writing viruses. Having an OS, that's "out of their reach" is a plus ... and any customer, whose got any wit at all, knows this. And these are the paying customers, imnsho ... not the other customer base. As I don't see Linux being pre-installed on home computers anytime soon. Yet, the readability of Linux also ensures that the learning curve is not too steep for the average user.