Quality of Ubuntu List
Fred Roller
froller at tnclimited.com
Sat Oct 10 17:27:49 UTC 2009
Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> No need, had all the look and feel of /trying/ to emulate the linux
>> communities and most of the help seemed to still point to someone who
>> had something to sell more times than not... if memory serves. Then
>> again, that may only be because most MS solutions do cost money.
>>
>>
>
> The Windows ecosystem seems to be proprietary and paid solutions.
> There is an alternative ecosystem which is cracked and malware-laden
> software. The alt-alt Windows FOSS ecosystem is growing, but from what
> I have seen, the pay-for-everything and crack-it ecosystems seems to
> offer better software [1]. So I don't see that changing anytime soon.
>
> [1] I'm not talking about web browsers here. Windows has lots of
> speciality professional software (Solidworks for instance) that do not
> have FOSS equivalents. For the average home user, FOSS does seem to
> provide everything one needs.
>
>
>
Moving response to sounder for those who care to follow. Subject is
moving off from original...
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