Comments about Linux/Ubuntu from a former MS-programmer

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 07:55 +0800, John wrote:
> > 
> > I think the next revolution in GUI might come from the OSS world, but,
> > as long as people continue to copy Windows (and, sometimes Mac) we're
> > not going to see that happen. Of course, it's quite possible that
> > Apple will have something up their sleeve if they don't completely
> > drop Mac OS X and become a clone manufacturer ;-(
> 
> 
> It makes good sense to follow Windows UI until we have good reason not 
> to. It seems to me that many of the differences are present just to be 
> different, and that results in Linux being harder to learn than it needs 
> to be, it results in shared applications (eg Mozilla*, OOo) being 
> different from everything else etc. 

Most OSS programmers (look at the comments on /. in any OSX/Windows
thread for example) consider OSX to be a superior interface to Windows,
and if they're copying anything will copy that.  This probably accounts
for most of the differences you mention.

Lee