Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 13, 2006 08:35 PM
Too many FOSS projects try to be different just to be different. "Don't Be Like Microsoft!!" My experience is that people will move to FOSS if and when the Desktops and Apps are familiar to them. FOSS typicaly scandalizes the poor newbies with radical new designs, interfaces, and techniques. Too much for newbies to deal with. Too much, too soon, for people who have too little time. Newbies want Windows, but without the Microsoft hedgemony. FOSS project coders are like Architects who want to build monuments to themselves.
FOSS is already a lot like Microsoft Windows though, because just like Microsoft, they refuse to give the end users what they want.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 13, 2006 08:35 PMMy experience is that people will move to FOSS if and when the Desktops and Apps are familiar to them.
FOSS typicaly scandalizes the poor newbies with radical new designs, interfaces, and techniques. Too much for newbies to deal with. Too much, too soon, for people who have too little time.
Newbies want Windows, but without the Microsoft hedgemony. FOSS project coders are like Architects who want to build monuments to themselves.
FOSS is already a lot like Microsoft Windows though, because just like Microsoft, they refuse to give the end users what they want.
Sad but true.
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