On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:48 PM, skommar21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>   Hi all,
>
> After reading Namita's blog, the reasons mentioned by Klaus Knopper
>
> Reason1 : "The Power of the Habit" is very valid and strong reason
> for not using open source software.
>
> The power of Habit is very difficult to kick this is Analogus to
> reading a particular news paper. once you get used to structure and
> format of news paper you will read the same news
> paper for years together even if the news paper dishes out not so news
> worthy items.
>
> I think same has happened with Microsoft operating systems because
> people got so used to it they dont look further, even open source
> operating systems provide better features than MS OS.
>
> Regards
> Sridhar Reddy
>  
>

Hi Sridhar,
That indeed is a big hurdle for OSS adoption.
What factors of OSS do you think should be emphasized to make people make a
switch?

-- 
Satish Vellanki


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