What we really need is TurboTax. I can see this being tough though, even the windows one has problems. For some reason it doesn't these 10+ digit values I keep putting in.
"Are you sure you meant billion?"
He's not saying 'lock down hot keys', he's saying make the default settings similar across the board.
This is the same point/counterpoint that always gets brought up. It needs to be as easy as possible out of the box, but still have the option to customize. That way you appeal to both crowds.
I don't know much about Armadillo, but if it's anything like id it's privately held, right? Probably with you being the majority holder. Would you even consider selling out if this situation were to happen, knowing that the buyer would probably bury the technology?
Everyone needs to stop thinking about only the large products when talking about this. (OS, Office Suite, Browser, etc...).
There are tons of small tools that could replace proprietary solutions. How many people out there use Winzip/Winrar/whatever for their archiving? Or TextPad/slickedit/whatever for text editing?
These simple tools have open source counterparts. Most of the time, though, they are only available for Linux. If we're ever to successfully get people off of Windows, we can't just throw RedHat at them and assume they'll get it.
All of these tools need to be available for Windows as well. And make them easily accessible. Don't make a newbie go out to sourceforge to get it. Instead of posting to some mailing list when you complete a new version, put it up on download.com or something similar. Then have a link to sourceforge where someone can get the source.
Once all of the little things become more common, that's one less thing the person has to learn in the switch to linux.
There's SO MUCH anti-Microsoft talk, but lets face it: They are the majority. If you want open source to go mainstream it's not going to happen overnight. You have to wean people off of it.
Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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What we really need is TurboTax. I can see this being tough though, even the windows one has problems. For some reason it doesn't these 10+ digit values I keep putting in. "Are you sure you meant billion?"
He's not saying 'lock down hot keys', he's saying make the default settings similar across the board.
This is the same point/counterpoint that always gets brought up. It needs to be as easy as possible out of the box, but still have the option to customize. That way you appeal to both crowds.
I don't know much about Armadillo, but if it's anything like id it's privately held, right? Probably with you being the majority holder. Would you even consider selling out if this situation were to happen, knowing that the buyer would probably bury the technology?
Everyone needs to stop thinking about only the large products when talking about this. (OS, Office Suite, Browser, etc...).
There are tons of small tools that could replace proprietary solutions. How many people out there use Winzip/Winrar/whatever for their archiving? Or TextPad/slickedit/whatever for text editing?
These simple tools have open source counterparts. Most of the time, though, they are only available for Linux. If we're ever to successfully get people off of Windows, we can't just throw RedHat at them and assume they'll get it.
All of these tools need to be available for Windows as well. And make them easily accessible. Don't make a newbie go out to sourceforge to get it. Instead of posting to some mailing list when you complete a new version, put it up on download.com or something similar. Then have a link to sourceforge where someone can get the source.
Once all of the little things become more common, that's one less thing the person has to learn in the switch to linux.
There's SO MUCH anti-Microsoft talk, but lets face it: They are the majority. If you want open source to go mainstream it's not going to happen overnight. You have to wean people off of it.
Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.