James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote:
With attitudes like that, the lack of Linux desktop market penetration continues to not surprise me.
Consider the following pertinent quote from http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm "The point is to make Linux the best OS that the community is capable of making. Not for other people: For itself. The oh-so-common threats of "Linux will never take over the desktop unless it does such-and-such" are simply irrelevant: The Linux community isn't trying to take over the desktop. They really don't care if it gets good enough to make it onto your desktop, so long as it stays good enough to remain on theirs. The highly-vocal MS-haters, pro-Linux zealots, and money-making FOSS purveyors might be loud, but they're still minorities." The entire article is worth reading and the above statements should be taken in context. Undoubtedly it's controversial, but I think it offers real insight into the nature of the Linux community, then and now.