Re:Please join the mandrake club.
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For software, I believe in the mechanisms of the market.
Most of the apps for linux in general are alpha and beta stage, very often lacking user-friendliness and ease of installation/use.
This does not mean, however, that Linux in general has no interest to end-users like myself.
When apps become user-friedly and reasonably easy to install, end-users will know to appreciate this. For example Opera for linux, which is a masterpiece and shows good craftmanship.
When more apps equal or better in quality and performance compared to Opera is made for Linux, people will know to appreciate it, and it will become a licensed product that people will and must pay to use.
There are some factors behind this.
To develop a top notch product, you need top notch people. Developers that writes some code on the weekends, is bound to produce inferior products compared to those companies that have hired professionals that not only work 8 or more hours a day on developing the software, but also can focuse on tasks in the specific project they are experienced/educated in.
As a Mandrake Linux user, who once in a while gets forced over to "the other side", I do not believe in charity bringing Linux to the next level. The next level can not be something like MS Windows, simply because Linux is based on a much too professional and well-made fundament: The Linux Kernel.
The next level for Linux, will be a level never seen before: a stable and user friendly OS that will make the world forget that Microsoft ever existed.
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For software, I believe in the mechanisms of the market.
Most of the apps for linux in general are alpha and beta stage, very often lacking user-friendliness and ease of installation/use.
This does not mean, however, that Linux in general has no interest to end-users like myself.
When apps become user-friedly and reasonably easy to install, end-users will know to appreciate this. For example Opera for linux, which is a masterpiece and shows good craftmanship.
When more apps equal or better in quality and performance compared to Opera is made for Linux, people will know to appreciate it, and it will become a licensed product that people will and must pay to use.
There are some factors behind this.
To develop a top notch product, you need top notch people. Developers that writes some code on the weekends, is bound to produce inferior products compared to those companies that have hired professionals that not only work 8 or more hours a day on developing the software, but also can focuse on tasks in the specific project they are experienced/educated in.
As a Mandrake Linux user, who once in a while gets forced over to "the other side", I do not believe in charity bringing Linux to the next level. The next level can not be something like MS Windows, simply because Linux is based on a much too professional and well-made fundament: The Linux Kernel.
The next level for Linux, will be a level never seen before: a stable and user friendly OS that will make the world forget that Microsoft ever existed.