Pan might not be an Agent competitor, but there are plenty of other Linux news agents that people like. Personally I would take Emacs/Gnus over Agent any day of the week, and there are plenty of other folks that like slrn, or whatever else.
The problem is that the Linux desktop market is pretty small to begin with, and in most categories there is already software that is "good enough." In many cases this software has a higher learning curve, but is more functional once it has been learned (in other words it is classic geek software). The prime example of this is TeX. For years Linux has lacked a classic word processor, but many Linuxers didn't mind one bit because they preferred tools like TeX and friends (LaTeX, LyX, TeXinfo, etc.). People migrating from Windows had a hard time believing that anyone could get work done in a Linux environment, and Linux users wondered how anyone got anything done on Windows.
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Re:The real problem with Shareware on Linux
Posted by: jdearl on July 25, 2002 04:04 AMPan might not be an Agent competitor, but there are plenty of other Linux news agents that people like. Personally I would take Emacs/Gnus over Agent any day of the week, and there are plenty of other folks that like slrn, or whatever else.
The problem is that the Linux desktop market is pretty small to begin with, and in most categories there is already software that is "good enough." In many cases this software has a higher learning curve, but is more functional once it has been learned (in other words it is classic geek software). The prime example of this is TeX. For years Linux has lacked a classic word processor, but many Linuxers didn't mind one bit because they preferred tools like TeX and friends (LaTeX, LyX, TeXinfo, etc.). People migrating from Windows had a hard time believing that anyone could get work done in a Linux environment, and Linux users wondered how anyone got anything done on Windows.
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