Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 11th Jul 2008 22:30 UTC, submitted by pas de calais
"Recently a blog post entitled 'Why Desktop Linux is its own worst enemy' has come across my feed-radar a few times. It's yet another in the long line of 'Linux ain't ready yet' jeremiads and it doesn't really say anything new yet it got on my nerves. Why?" Ryan Cartwright at Freesoftware Magazine is on fine form with this wonderfully splenetic broadside. Read the full tirade at FSM.
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I think the article is correct that GNU/Linux is about having Free as in speech tools to build OSes with. That's way different than selling one OS in a box. To get GNU/Linux capabilities in Windows you have to be a close partner of Microsoft and sign your profits away.
I think OSS software in general is moving into the mainstream and with that comes expectation that "anything" people download will be of high quality. Regular people generally don't pay for software... accounting departments do or it just "comes with it free", a few get stuff from those "free" places on online but most don't bother with the hassle. The funny thing is that most of the vocal opponents of Linux will spend hours on Pirate Bay hunting for cracks for "expensive" better software but won't spend a little time and money to make a linux system work.