On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 11:20, Collins Richey wrote: > > Maybe you should widen your field of vision.
The problem is, my field of vision *is* much wider - wider than OS software. This really is one of the major limitations to the acceptance of open source solutions by leading system integrators and IT service companies. Thus the reason for my rant. In this case, we're not talking about a personal media-player. We're talking about fairly serious development tools that can affect hundreds of software projects and dependent applications. I work for one of the largest IT services company in North America. Things like this are invariably considered fairly serious problems in product selection/due diligence evaluations for a client's architecture. It makes it harder to sell Linux and common Linux applications. > Almost everything in the > open software arena is done this way - glibc, kernel, qt, kde, gnome. > The few closed source vendors (ex. Realplay) who choose to offer their > product for linux fight this battle every day. The only reason I can > still use Realplay is that Mozilla offers binaries and gentoo offers a > compatability library series that allows use of the older glibc/gcc > combination. > For Linux to be accepted across the board, major issues such as this need to be addressed. It's OK for small boutique software offerings. But if Linux wants to play seriously at the enterprise level, there is a certain amount of discipline that will have to be adopted by the community. -- burns _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
