Open-source is not the future!

[proactive]

Chris, I'm defenately not against putting functionality into products. What I'm saying is this: When adding functionality, you must spend just as much time making this new functionality easy to use. There will always be some learning involved, but it's the development team's responsibility not to make the learing curve too steep. The users prefer useability, and I think we should give them what they want.

Originally posted by chsh

To be quite honest, I think you're wrong. If a programmer is capable of doing a thorough needs evaluation, then a single person CAN create a good product.

Most programmers don't have the education nor the experience to do this.

It seems to me that you're arguing that Linux is not Windows

When it comes to user interface the MAC-OS' desktop metaphore is somwhat of an industry standard. It's my personal opinion that MS have a better implementation than what currently is available for Linux. Other people can have a different opinion. What is really the truth, I don't know. Only tests can prove.....

And Chris, there's no need to point your gun at me.... I don't believe in warfare......

[Focmaester]

At the moment it will look to most people as if Microsoft is still winning.
Well let me tell you what is happening as we speak in Europe. The UK and France are discussing the possiblity of ditching windows and switching to opensource. And in Holland all the schools admins had a gathering 2 months ago about the possibility of switiching to Linux on all desktops since it could provide everything they need. Staroffice can replace Office, Netscape can replace IE. Nothing else needed. This could happen withing two years, schools don't want to keep on paying licensing fee's that are high priced let alone switching to XP.
Altough about the money part, SuSE allmost went bancrupt last month, IBM came along and saved their ass. So they definetely need to find ways of making money.