"W.B.(Wim) Hofman" wrote:
Folks,
Can you expect to say to a housewife : This is a Linux cd. Install it on
this computer and I expect you to have looked at these Internet sites by
tomorrow morning? It would have to be some housewife!! Linux needs far to
much work still to make it fit for the masses.
Wim
Don't forget the opportunity lost due to M$ predations. Gates didn't invent
software. He pulled the rug out from under a lot of good effort, using
everyone else's work, but trying to protect his own. He poked his finger in
the eye of standards wherever possible. Standard layers will be the foundation
of future system elaboration. The fundamental contradiction Gates had to get
around, was that between "information age" and "proprietory software".
It is
the "rising tide lifts all boats" problem. What is the value of wealth, unless
you are richer than the next guy? If everybody is rich, who will pick up the
garbage? When people started passing around copies of his BASIC, Gates
realized the problem, and the solution.
-- John Tinker