Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 13th Sep 2007 08:14 UTC, submitted by Anonymous Reader
"My verdict: Even in the relatively slick Ubuntu variation, Linux is still too rough around the edges for the vast majority of computer users",
says Mossberg. Among others, he complains about one of the things I did too when I was writing my stream of Ubuntu reviews back in Spring.
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It seems a perfectly fair article to me. Not least because if you want to nitpick you can do it every which way. No OS is perfect, all have faults. In any case, imho the meat of the article lies in this statement:
"But open source is a two-edged sword. While it draws on smart developers from many places, nobody is ultimately responsible for the quality of the product, and open-source developers often have an imperfect feel for how average people use software."
That's the bottom line here: is the methodology of open source flawed in some way so that meeting the needs of ordinary computer users or "average people" is really quite difficult for it?
I'm not saying there's a right or wrong answer, just that this is a thoughtful question to have posed. You can talk all day about mp3 or ogg or WMA or whatever, but they are all symptoms, not causes. Mossberg, rightly, is suggesting we look a little deeper than that. I guess the good news is that if anyone is equipped to understand this really well, Mark Shuttleworth is.