On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Nasimul Haque <nasim.ha...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Naming does not have any relation with standardisation. What is the > standard of being my name is Nasim and yours is Jewel or someone > else's is Joe? > Naming is not too much important. I mentioned that I used name as example for simplicity. But, naming convention is also important, specially for a new user. Say, one need to make a presentation slide. If s/he gets MS Office, he needs to find out POWER POINT and if s/he gets OpenOffice, s/he needs to find out IMPRESS. Now, do these name make any sense? Is s/he will able to open correct program before trying all the icons? and after getting the correct one s/he needs to memorize that Presentaion = POWER POINT in MS Office and Presentaion = IMPRESS in OpenOffice. So, though naming is not vital but important. > > Windows has its own standards and Unix world has its own (called POSIX). > Yah, I also say that Windows has its own features and GNU has its own features, but no common standards. So, problem is lacking of a standard. (Note: Standards exist for OS, it is maitained in the perspective of develper but not in the perspective of an end-user. I wanted to say it) > > When you suggest windows control panel should behave like linux system > preference you are encouraging the memorisation. Literacy is not > memorising. > If a programmer learns anything like Object/ class/ consturctor/ abstrction/ encapsulation/ .... and uses any product of a company say .NET and if s/he needs to work on another lanuage like PHP, s/he doesn't need to hunt for the name, what is used in PHP for that. Just s/he can search for example of class/constructor in php. And, s/he will get the answer. This is not memorising, this is from learning. If I need diffrent different name all time, that is memorisation. > > Having choices is the main goal of the open source movement. This is the > exact reason you have thousands of Linux distro, hundreds of desktop > environments, etc. > You can hop around them and make a choice of yours. > > Having choices is good for any software, but thousands of distro (not version) for same OS rather becomes a trouble for a new user to choose the right solution. Source; the main goal of the open source movement is the openness of the source code. If the source code is not open that is called proprietary software. And all the open source supporter support open source because source is open and it gives freedom to the user that s/he can know what s/he is choosing. I have many common views that have been mentioned in this thread. So, don't think I am differing each and every view with you. I am trying to express those thing that I think missing. -- Mohammad Mukhtaruzzaman (Jewel) -- Ubuntu Bangladesh https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
