People are and should be free to choose what they think is better. Nope. Take VHS vs. Beta... remember? The market (and free ?thinkers? everywhere chose VHS... Beta was better but we all got stuck with VHS...
On Monday 05 June 2006 20:08, Bryan J. Smith wrote: thank goodness for DVD. Remember Micro-channel? Free ?thinkers? everywhere chose ISA... and the rest of us got stuck with ISA although Microchannel was by far the better technology. Here we go again... *nix is better by a factor of at least 700... and we're all going to get stuck with Windblows because free ?thinkers? everywhere are buying it.... aaauuugh. Windblows must die.
I think there are plenty of app ports. The only things missing are the proprietary ones the average home consumer thinks they need. True... but I was thinking of drivers... for instance wireless?*?
The larger issue of open source v. commercial applications are about _services_, not the applications. E.g., various services Intuit provides for on-line services that open source projects do not provide. I agree. But again it gets back to the market. Service providers will naturally focus attention on the majority... whether its better or not... and that sux.
Actually, UNIX is very well standardized -- far better than Windows, even though it's from a single company. I was referring to the distro tweaks that get thrown into the mix for kde or gnome... if Windblows were out of the way one or the other (kde vs. gnome) would float to the top and the desktop would become "standard," if you will.
better desktop quality, See above.
Huh? I think desktop quality in Linux is top-notch. Although a .NET-Mono GNOME implementation might be a bit better than its current CORBA-Bonobo form. Desktop quality if usaually very good... but some parts of it are just flaky because it doesn't get the commercial attention... again Windblows must die.
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