<div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Robert McWilliam <<a href="mailto:rmcw@allmail.net">rmcw@allmail.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> That's kind of missing the whole point of open source. The advantage of distributed and uncontrolled development is that everybody goes in whichever direction they want and explores the possibilities for solving a problem to their own satisfaction. The fact there are a multitude of solutions is an advantage as we can each select from them to get something we are happy with. Dictating the "right" way of doing something and getting everybody to work on it is highly unlikely to actually get the best solution as there is no perfect person to be the dictator. It also precludes the possibility that there are a range of options because different people want different things. If you want someone else to do the choosing then you can go for your distro's default and not worry about it. It really annoys me when people preset choice as a problem. It might be intimidating to a new user if they are presented with a huge number of options but that is an argument for how we should be presenting things to the new user not an argument for limiting the choices available. OK, I'll stop ranting now :)    Robert </blockquote></div> I definitely agree with you Robert. I believe they (Mozilla, Google, and MS) are going a bit more than just a browser... they are going to mash the browser into the desktop environment... this is just the beginning. Tiago Vieira </div>