Interesting article about "What Linux is doing wrong on the desktop"

[Simon Edwards]

On Friday 28 April 2006 03:33, Matt Galvin wrote:
> On 4/27/06, Senectus . <senectus at gmail.com> wrote:
> That is very false statement. All FOSS (Linux and everything around
> it) software changes so frequently as to demand these "fast" 6 month
> release cycles. If that is not churn I don't know what is :-/ On the
> flip side the software is usually stable enough to not *require*
> upgrades but the upgrades are made available every few months. Maybe
> the OEM decision makers are missing some facts here. With new releases
> every 6 moths there is certainly room for them grow and sell systems.

The article is talking about hardware churn, namely getting people to upgrade 
their hardware. Statements from Microsoft about how the hefty hardware 
requirements for Vista are going to bound existing machines into dust, are 
music to the ears of the OEMs. If (K)Ubuntu forced people to upgrade their 
hardware every 6 months, OEMs would be marketing and advertising (K)Ubuntu 
like crazy for us already. It is a sorry state of affairs, but there is a 
huge 3rd party support system in place making lots of money by supporting 
and 'fixing'/reinstalling Windows.

> <qoute>
> Mainstream users just aren't going to voluntarily switch to Linux if
> it means they have to give up Photoshop, Quicken or even Microsoft
> Office, said Perlman, who calls the current dearth of commercial
> software a "drought."
> </quote>
> My above example proves this is flat out wrong. And "mainstream users"
> don't use $650 Photoshop.

Of course not, they use $0 pirated Photoshop.

cheers,

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