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michael
on from the includes-two-of-every-application dept.
An anonymous reader notes that OFB has a short blurb about a new Linux distribution, Ark Linux, based on Red Hat and chasing the ever-elusive goal of being "easy to use for the masses".
The whole thing with *NIX that makes it great is that it will never be easy for the masses.
Bill Gates sold his soul by creating easy to use software that reins the user in.
The *NIX people forfeited popularity by building an OS that is intrinsically elitist, in an honest way, like a pro sports league in that the common man can never be good enough to make the team.
The masses MUST stick with Windows. Only the few can play in the Super Bowl.
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Perhaps because none of the previous wheels have actually been *round* yet.
Open source doesn't necessary have to be "hard for JoeSixpack to use" by definition, but so far it has been.
The whole thing with *NIX that makes it great is that it will never be easy for the masses.
Bill Gates sold his soul by creating easy to use software that reins the user in.
The *NIX people forfeited popularity by building an OS that is intrinsically elitist, in an honest way, like a pro sports league in that the common man can never be good enough to make the team.
The masses MUST stick with Windows. Only the few can play in the Super Bowl.
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