On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 11:35 +0530, Gautam Chaudhary wrote: > You should be contributing your time to development and improvement of > FOSS instead of writing against MS. As long as FOSS alternatives are > not as feature rich and easier to use as MS products, average user > won't shift even if they agree with your MS bashing.
not correct - the whole concepts of 'ease of use' and 'feature rich' are radically different in the Foss world and the MS world. For example take the question of an IDE - in the MS world an IDE is one application that does everything - edit, create directory structure, maintain the VCS, deploy the app (and take the dog for a walk). There is a button for everything. Super cool. But ... if there is a problem for which there is no button? The developer is helpless. In the Foss world the concept is: rather than one app that does everything, one uses many apps - each one does *one* thing and does it perfectly. Thus to a genuine Foss developer, the linux desktop is the perfect IDE - especially if he uses two or more monitors. > > Its not lack of knowledge of FOSS which is helping MS, but > non-availability of equally good, ready to use and feature rich > alternatives. no - it is lack of knowledge of Foss. And this is not helped by Foss developers who strive to ape MS or Apple in their apps. Like we had a perfectly good desktop - both gnome and kde, now gnome looks and feels like a poor relation of the mac. > -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
