Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 11, 2004 07:36 AM
Your example (professional photographer, PhotoShop vs GIMP) is much more the exception than the rule. The vast majority of home computer users could easily replace Photoshop with the GIMP, Internet Explorer with Mozilla, and MS Office with OpenOffice (for example). And many of those could also replace Outlook with Kmail (or many other mail clients) and Windows (98, XP, 2000, 2003,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...) with Linux. Even more so if assisted with the installation. The list of Free/Open Source packages that can replace proprietary equivalents (in both function and usability) goes on and on.
The hard part is bringing the masses out of their distorted view of reality based on the fallacy that the only viable solutions come out of a shrink wrapped box.
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Re:To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 11, 2004 07:36 AMThe hard part is bringing the masses out of their distorted view of reality based on the fallacy that the only viable solutions come out of a shrink wrapped box.
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