Re: Linux on the desktop

Thus quoth Alex Butcher on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:31:41PM +0000:
> 
> The question I guess I'm asking is more fundamental; why do we care whether
> or not there's a vibrant shrinkwrapped mass-market software business for
> Linux, if the FOSS equivalents are easily good enough for most users (myself
> included)?
> 
> Personally, I don't think I /do/ care. YMMV, of course.

Allow me now to rephrase *your* question:
You assume that even if there was a mass-market for commercial applications
on Linux, they would not add anything many users have a sufficiently strong
need for to what the Free/Open Source Software community has to offer.

I'm not sure I find this wholly plausible. 

Kind regards,


Daniel von Asmuth

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