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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."
If you honestly want to work on getting Linux accepted, Star Office is great. But you have to make Linux itself much much much more user friendly.
Every single peice of functionality has to be quick and easy to use. I can sit down and figure out an NT/2K network, setup accounts for people and machines, build and configure machines, install applications, and manage TCP/IP without a book. I have never had training in that, I just figured it out.
But I am still trying to get a nice stable Linux build that will do what I want it to do.
Linux is better, there is no question about that. Now it needs to be easier.