Thread: Nokia Booklet 3G
View Single Post
mrojas's Avatar
mrojas is offline mrojas
2009-08-24 , 18:34
Posts: 733 | Thanked: 991 times | Joined on Dec 2008
#132
Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
When Ari Jaaksi proposed that Linux developers start trying to understand business models and working around IP, people went ape****. I'm afraid the mindset behind that sort of overreaction is one thing that keeps Linux out of the corporate world-- well, that and the cost-benefit support analyses I've seen favoring fewer platforms (on Excel spreadsheets ).
What Linux people needs to understand is that for the average Joe, Windows already works, maybe not perfectly, but it works, and it is going to be better with Windows 7 (in fact I am using 7 right now).

So, what the average Joe (or the average corporation) think when presented with the Linux option is that they would need to go through the complex process of migration and re-learning an OS, to do the same things they are already doing now.

So just being free and "not evil" is not good enough. As unfair as it may seem, Linux has to offer more. In that sense, I think Ubuntu is going the right way.