I think the article had a point but it also missed an important one. One of the things that makes Linux great is evolution. Not the email client I'm using to type this, but survival of the fittest. On Windows people tend to use whatever package has the biggest marketing dept and I suspect a lot of software has stagnated because of it. On the other hand there is a lot of wasted effort on duplicate projects because people want the ego boost of heading a project. Brady > I agree with the article 100%. The community needs to focus, not scatter. > Yes, it is like herding cats, but nonetheless, stuff needs to work! > Nobody develops for linux (commercially), becaues it is a nightmare! At > least on windows, you have a standard development base to build from. > > Linux has many advantages, but it would be nice from a development and a > user perspective if the community could agree to some standards, instead > of reinventing the wheel each time around. > > Dan > > > On Friday 04 April 2003 10:06 pm, dare t wrote: > >> http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/774/ > >> > >> pretty good read, maybe he is right > > Or maybe's he's just a troll with poorly crafted strawmen for arguments. > > Does > > he defend his assertions? Does he provide some data to back up his points? > > Oh, no, he's too busy whipping himself into rightous indignation to bother > > with piddly things like that. > > > >> "The plethora of Free Software applications available today, none > >> working > >> perfectly, is a problem which stands in the way of major adoption of > >> Linux > >> on the desktop. In order to conquer the desktop, we have to stand > >> united. " > > Likewise, the plethora of Windows software, none working perfectly, is > > standing in the way of major adoption of Windows. Oh, wait, I guess not. > > The desktop is a high-inertia area, and there are lots of factors > > (including > > MS's illegal monopoly and the near impossibility of getting any other OS, > > other than Windows, from a major OEM) involved. A few years ago, there > > wasn't > > enough Free software to conquer the desktop. Now, according to this > > brilliant > > analysis, there's too much. Logically, therefore, we must have hit the > > sweet > > spot of just the right amount of software somewhere along the way. Oh, why > > couldn't he have spoken sooner, before we entered the "plethora" zone??? > > Furthermore, his scenario is just idle fantasy. Telling the FOSS > > community > > what they should and should not do is like herding cats. Impossible. The > > community's strength lies in its ability to go in multiple directions > > simultanously. That's how it's been, that's how it's going to be. If this > > guy > > doesn't like it, he can go back to Windows, where everything will be > > nicely > > spoonfed to him. > > Why Freshmeat published this guy (and gave him a t-shirt--geez, I could > > write > > better than that if they offered me a shirt!) is beyond me. Maybe they > > needed > > some page hits for OSDN. Nothing like a troll (and getting posted to /.) > > to > > raise those page hits. > > :Peter > > -- > > Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive! > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list