Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 4th Jan 2007 21:09 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Today, you can do everything you want with a Linux desktop, except play the latest games. Even there, Linux is catching up. So, why do only a handful of people run Linux instead of Windows? Here are my top-four reasons why Windows wins and Linux loses."
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Normal users will never get the message, because they are not developers. They will never get it, and it's time the OSS community realizes that. Normal users use computers as TOOLs, that's it, they don't care about the ideology of the thing, or wether a driver is OSS or proprietary, they just want thier shit to work. Depending on normal users to adopt your belief system when they couldn't care less is noble, but misguided.
Get the mindshare, and then when users already love linux, then force the hardware companied to open up thier drivers, until then, OSS does not have the power
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2006-10-24
The users won't howl when thier drivers work, they don't care if they are OSS or not, they just want thier stuff to work.
And that is _exactly_ the point. Users don't care because they're getting the wrong message. They're getting the message that there is no _need_ to care. But it would be foolish to think that you can dispose of the very open source process that created Linux in the first place and have it magically continue to be successful. Therefore, we need to educate users and make sure that they understand the process that created Linux and ask for them to support the methodologies that gave them Linux to use in the _first_ place.
You won't get the users at all if their hardware doesn't work, regardless of the openness of the drivers, but when you have the users, then the Opensource community will have the strength to dictate terms, not before
You just got through saying users won't care about open source so how is that going to strengthen the community? Your arguments aren't consistent. The only way to strengthen the open source community, is to educate and encourage support for the open source development process and products.