windows is great.. but vista should not be called windows.
It should be called a disaster


"Jed Clampett" <jed@beverly.com> wrote in message
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> This is part of an article from Computerworld talking about Open Source.
> A few Linux die-hards think that OpenSource is the answer to everything
> and to ditch Microsoft. Considering most of the business world uses
> Microsoft products and only a few use Open Source, this might be a window
> as to why Open Source hasn't caught on that well.
>
> I am so tired of seeing a few touting the benefits of Ubuntu and Linux
> over Windows. Windows has it's place for most and Linux has it's place
> for others, but to suggest that one ditch Vista or XP in favor of
> Linux/Ubuntu, they are short sighted.
>
> If you want to use Linux/Ubuntu, go ahead, but don't cram it down out
> throats each and every day.
>
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> ComputerWorld - Snippit.
>
>
> One of the reasons why free and open-source software development has been
> successful over disparate locations is that the work has been done by the
> users, and these developer-users determine the functionality, Herbsleb
> said.
>
> "Because work is done by the users, they're more likely to get the
> functionality right, so a major class of errors is eliminated," he noted,
> adding that developers of commercial software are rarely users of the
> software, and the functionality is determined by project managers.
>
> "Project managers tend to understand purchasing designs -- why companies
> buy software -- so they'll build a project that plays into those hands,"
> Herbsleb explained. This means that commercial software can be created
> without fully meeting user requirements. Because free and open-source
> software developers are its users, they create the functions they
> specifically need.
>
> But one of the drawbacks to the open-source software development model is
> that mainstream users often get left behind because the really technical
> people create the software design functionality for themselves, not for
> the average user. The geek creed -- "If you can't install it, you don't
> deserve to use it" -- is still alive in many open-source projects, said
> Nancy Frishberg who works on user-centered software design in the software
> division at Sun Microsystems Inc.
>
> As a result, "it is sometimes said [that lack of] usability is the
> Achilles' heel of open source," said Steve Easterbrook, associate
> professor in the department of computer science and associate director of
> the Knowledge and Media Institute at the University of Toronto.
> Sun's Frishberg added that the open-source mantra that "everyone can
> contribute" is actually misleading because adding to an open-source
> project is basically limited to code, bugs and patches.
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