Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 14, 2006 07:17 AM
If you opened a chinese restaurant in Nashville TN. Would you force everyone to eat with chopsticks, and stab everyone who resists in the neck with them? Or would you rather keep the cash register humming by giving your customers the knifes and forks they're accustomed to.
As far as inovation, once something becomes the expected standard, like the knife and fork for eating, forcing what you believe to be inovative on people is a very bad, and ill conceived notion.
You could probably design an inovative, and highly efficient method for feeding people by using a modified toilet plunger. But broad acceptance beyond the trendy first adopter types, and masochists, is highly unlikely.
The logical path to follow when applying these analogies to FOSS, is to just give the people what they want. A simple logical exercise, isn't it?
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Re:Familiarity Is Important!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 14, 2006 07:17 AMAs far as inovation, once something becomes the expected standard, like the knife and fork for eating, forcing what you believe to be inovative on people is a very bad, and ill conceived notion.
You could probably design an inovative, and highly efficient method for feeding people by using a modified toilet plunger. But broad acceptance beyond the trendy first adopter types, and masochists, is highly unlikely.
The logical path to follow when applying these analogies to FOSS, is to just give the people what they want. A simple logical exercise, isn't it?
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