The future of Ubuntu Linux.... Will it make Micky$oft go bankrupt?

[Amit Kumar]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Pastor JW
<pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org>wrote:

> Evidently you have never even used Ubuntu.  I have never used an OS easier
> to
> use.  My 80 plus year old mother has no trouble with it and neither does my
> 4
> year old grand-daughter.  But then again maybe you are correct, they are
> more
> intelligent than a windoze user!


Please stop making the conversation personal. I have honestly written my
opinion of the matter. See, I am not a Ubuntu/Windows evangelist. I have
written not the way it works for me, but the way it does not work for my
friends. I love Ubuntu, and more than a sort of prejudiced way (against MS).
By your comments, I think you don't want to reach out to the Windows users
anyway!

I've never had a problem that wasn't addressed and fixed in a very short
> time
> unlike other OSes I have used.
>

Yes true. But my contention was that there are more issues than proprietary
OSes. To be able to make Ubuntu/other Linux prevalent in the enterprise and
at home, Ubuntu needs to cross the chasm.

Has always run fine here and infact how Skype ran on my factory installed
> Dell, caused several of my co-workers to dump what they had and install
> Kubuntu on their machines.


Skype now runs fine on Ubuntu, but an year ago it sure didn't run out of the
box.  Now I like to use Globe7, which does not work on Ubuntu for me.

It is, mostly because we constantly have so much windoze crud over here we
> have to waste time with.


Yes, you are just stating the problem. If you're interested in considering a
solution, you would be more willing to listen to criticism.


> Maybe if we downgraded Open Office enough that it wouldn't read its own
> previous version's files it would then be as poor a product as Office 2007!
>

I love good/great software and I think Office 2007 is a gem of a software.
So is MySQL and "Synaptic Package Manager". OpenOffice is good too, but
still does not work with all office documents. OpenOffice is not as
sleek. The point I am making is not just about OpenOffice. MS is vastly
improving its software/OS with every release. As in case of Office, I
understand that MS unilaterally "defines" the rules that others have to
follow. To become competitive, the non-proprietary community has to unite.
There is little I find about coming together/standardization of applications
on various Linuxes (if someone knows kindly let us know), except
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/ .
-Amit
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