CNet Promotes Essential Open-Source Software to Joe Public

Zool writes "A feature is currently running on CNet explicitly promoting open-source software alternatives for typical home users, with programs rated and compared to commercial offerings. Although there's no mention of the Linux advantages to home users, the list is extensive and certainly written with the intention of snagging wider open-source adoption and understanding in the mainstream. 'Why should you care about open source? You should care because the vast majority of common applications, even complex commercial stuff like Adobe Photoshop, Windows Media Player and Microsoft Office, have free, open-source alternatives. And this point is worth reiterating: open-source software is free. No cost. Zero. Zilch.'"

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[El Lobo]

FOSS is no better and not wors than closed source:

* quality wise, both may have (and have) problems.

* There are fantastic OS and not OS programs

* There are failures in OS and closed source arena

* 92% of the Sourceforge products stagnate in tehit own inactivity. You hear about the success but not about the MILLIONS of OS failures.

* It is a myth the superiority of OS because everybody can fix the source by theyself. Yes, this can be done, but few do it. And doing it doesn't guarantee that millions of users will automagically apply the changes.

The major (and only) difference is idiological. And it's politically correct to say that OS is cool, but I don't care for ideologies. Show me a good soft and I will use and promote it, be it OS or not.