What's Wrong with the Open Source Community?

An anonymous reader writes "We Have Met The Enemy and He Is Us says a Pogo-quoting James Turner, in trying to pinpoint "What's Wrong with the Open Source Community?" for LinuxWorld this morning. But he doesn't *just* say that it's we developers ourselves, he also has five hard-to-deny reasons, including 'Open source developers often scratch the same itch' and 'Open Source developers love a good feud.' He also suggests we often approach the whole issue of encouraging migration to Linux from Windows entirely wrongly." There's also a decent rebuttal with this story as well - worth reading.

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Other problems to address

[BanjoBob]

Some other issues that are limiting the ability of Linux to become popular with the masses are:
1. The names of the programs are not user friendly. Where Microsoft calls a media player a Media Player or a photo editor Paint, Linux uses names that have no meaning to the common user. Names such as Gimp, Pia, Ogg123, etc. have no indication of what they really do as an application.
2. Package installation can be a huge problem. How often do you try and install a package just to find out that you have incompatibilities all over the place. Libraries and required package version problems and other such things can make installation of simple things a total nightmare.

Mod article down!!!

[t0ny]

Boy, if that guy posted any of that article on Slashdot, he would have been modded down so far he would be breathing charcoal.

Good thing he wrote it as an article, tho. Thats the only way anyone around here actually reads anything contrary to the zealot dogma.

I am prepared to be modded down for telling the truth.