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Linux Development Call To Arms
Hell O'World writes "This ZDNet Article points to the direction that Linux developers need to follow. Many people think that Linux needs an Office clone to gain acceptance, but the truth is that monolithic software is not the future. To get all of the functionality that anyone could possibly need in one place, the Office paradigm is to have everything there at once, and that takes a huge amount of resources to load, and years to learn. Linux will not gain converts by giving users the same thing, that they will then have to relearn. The power of UNIX is in connecting small, fleet-footed tools. What we need now is to create an environment, where users can easily create customized tools for the way they work, and developers can easily add new functionality."
You are forgetting the flight simulators and arcade games embeded into MS Office as easter eggs.
At the next eco-hypocrisy-meeting, count the private jets used to get to the meeting. Should be interesting to see that
"I have to pipe the what to where? What's a pipe?"
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"Yes, I see the thing above the return key..."
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"Said what?"
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"Oh, sed. What's that?"
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"Come on, all I want to do is spellcheck..."
Back in the day we called these "text files", in fact everything from memos to emails to configuration files were all just "text files". You could write an app in a couple of lines that would create and edit these "text file" things. Most command shells even have support for that stuff. Wierd.
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.