On 1 Jun, Lennart Börjeson wrote:
The success of Windows rests on three pillars: <snip...> Linux needs to counter Windows on all three fronts by offering 99.9% Windows compatibility + superior features, otherwise the common non-techie person won't stand the hassle of converting.
You will always lose if your opponent can make the rules. Copying Windows will be a losing game. Because MS will just change the rules, again. That's why OS/2 failed. It was a better Windows than Windows. But it was still just another copy of Windows. Strength is in mobility. Integrated programs are not flexible (mobile). The code grows cumbersome and large. Smaller, self-contained, script friendly programs give more control to a learning/learned user. Instead of a Linux replacement for Exchange, how about a group of programs that replicate the end results of Exchange (calendar, tasks, etc...)? With the focus resting on functionality, not compatibility. -- Robert Wohlfarth rjwohlfar@bigfoot.com "Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?" -- Matthew 6:25b