Posted by: Per Abrahamsen
on January 06, 2004 02:32 AM
I doubt you will find many of the more serious developers talking about "defeating MS", especially in the home market. Defeating MS was never a primary motivation for us.
Most of the money is in the corporate market, which mean most of us will get free sofware jobs. For the same reason, Microsoft will definitely not be happy "owning" the home market. They probably wouldn't even own that for long, as people prefer using the same software at home as at work, and it would be cheap enough for someone to create end-user versions for the little non-game, non-office software that exists, based on similar nerd-user software. The motivation could be publicity.
Entertainment software is the only area where free software may be unable to provide adequate end-user solutions. I hear Microsoft has some pretty good games.
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Posted by: Per Abrahamsen on January 06, 2004 02:32 AMMost of the money is in the corporate market, which mean most of us will get free sofware jobs. For the same reason, Microsoft will definitely not be happy "owning" the home market. They probably wouldn't even own that for long, as people prefer using the same software at home as at work, and it would be cheap enough for someone to create end-user versions for the little non-game, non-office software that exists, based on similar nerd-user software. The motivation could be publicity.
Entertainment software is the only area where free software may be unable to provide adequate end-user solutions. I hear Microsoft has some pretty good games.
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