Hi Satish, I think in developer community and Super user community and hobbyists open source awareness is good and usage of open source products is good
But coming to Naive users or ordinary users it has not picked up.To make open source products popular for mass consumption the marketing aspect of products should brought under one umbrella. i think we need some corporate support for this. i dont how far this possible. It is good that some hardware manfactures are shipping open source Operating systems with their products. Sridhar On 2/25/08, Shriphani Palakodety <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Satish Vellanki <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]<satish.vell%40gmail.com>> > wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > Backwards compatibility. > At the GHOP I was told that Python 3000 would > be backwards incompatible and that no-one from PSF was talking about > maintaining the 2.x line. Every script needs to be changed. So every > project out there will have to devote time to getting their app Py3k > compatible. > >
