Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 20th Dec 2002 12:41 UTC
"The Open Source community's answer is to ignore Microsoft's incredible technological lead - because it is proprietary and not a standard - and instead focusses on their own cool thing and self-gratifying cool features, because they think they can do better (which is where the ignorance combined with ego comes in)." Join the discussion at Advogato.
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The arrogance and fragmentation of the community is why Linux doesn’t have much of the desktop market. Why do we need KDE and GNOME. Why not just focus on one and make it work. People often argue that “choice” is important but what good is it when you have to choose between a bunch of half broken things.
If people want OSS to be taken seriously they need to drop all the arrogance and start building solutions that address market need. Apache is an excellent example of this kind of thinking it is a fantastic piece of software. But what I want to know is why is it that there are about 40 different OSS POP3 mail servers out there, each with their own little nuisances and minor feature differences, but not one good solid OSS groupware package which will compete feature for feature with something like Exchange or Lotus Notes.