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The True Challenges of Desktop Linux
olau writes "Hot on the heels on the opinion piece on how Mac OS X killed Linux on the desktop is a more levelheaded analysis by another GNOME old-timer Christian Schaller who doesn't think Mac OS X killed anything. In fact, in spite of the hype surrounding Mac OS X, it seems to barely have made a dent in the overall market, he argues. Instead he points to a much longer list of thorny issues that Linux historically has faced as a contender to Microsoft's double-monopoly on the OS and the Office suite."
You DO realize you just gave the "shit sandwich" excuse, yes? And you wonder why nobody is taking your product? The shit sandwich excuse is when someone says "hey want a free sandwich?" and when you say yes hands you a POS between two slices of bread and says "here you go!".
To use a /. car analogy your excuse is like someone going to a car lot and you say "Hey I'll give you a free car, just give me your address!" and they wake up in the morning to find a bunch of raw steel and a picture of a car with a note that says "What do you want me to do ALL the work? build it yourself!"
The majority of the planet? NOT CS grads with low level programming experience under their belts. They can no more fix the half baked code you drop in their lap than you could make that raw steel into a Caddy, and for the vast majority the cost of paying you to actually make your product not be half baked would cost them more than the competition costs, hence why they don't take your code.
After all if that "free car" I give you is an 85 Citation with the sides rusted out, the motor blown and transmission seized, and the interior gutted, have I actually done you ANY favors at all?
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.