That would be a major strike against bureaucracy. After all most office products (as in pens, not as in MS Office) were used by MacGyver in one episode or the other to produce some weapon or other special forces-like equipment.
I can't help but wonder if it's silly little pissing contests like this that, at least in some way, prevents OSS from reaching its full potential.
Did the thought ever occur to you that this is the Open Source Process? Discussing the best way to do something and then trying to prove one is right when words don't convince the other side is exacly the reason why quality in Open Source in so high. If you don't allow anyone to critize you your software will never be of optimal quality.
Not to mention downloading it, trying it, throwing it away a day later because the browser you used before was still better (opera in my case, tried firefox at least 4-5 times since it is usable).
The point with startups is not "it gets you richer than before" but "It gets you rich or broke depending on the quality of work" and this not on a company but on an individual worker level.
The problem with your suggestions is that most of what you call "dumb it down a bit" is really "make it a bit more like windows". Most newbie-relevant parts of the OS are really quite simple to use, they are just different than Windows. Making it more like Windows would actually reduce Linux' worth for users that already learned the things that bother you as a Windows user. I won't argue that Linux is perfectly easy to use in all aspects but the tasks of Joe User (and the installation of a non-hacker distro) are at least as easy as with Windows.
...buy the album online, used. That means you have to make room for album art, booklet and the actual physical media and you have to rip it yourself including all the problems some copy-protected CDs throw in your way to have the music in a convenient format.
So you say all those big companies save the money so they won't have to lay off people when times are bad? Why are they killing jobs then even when they have enough money to pay their investors part of their high profits. Shouldn't they stop paying their investors high percentages first, then use up their reserves and lay off people (in high numbers, I don't talk about incompetent workers) only as a last resort?
Considering the relative lack of success of Java and Mono to provide more than 1% or 2% of the apps the average user has running/installed on his desktop we probably shouldn't integrate any of these into the OS.
How about stopping to think as "them" and "us" in these matters? Space offers hard problems even if we see all successful missions as a success and don't regard half of them as failures simply because another nation did them.
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That would be a major strike against bureaucracy. After all most office products (as in pens, not as in MS Office) were used by MacGyver in one episode or the other to produce some weapon or other special forces-like equipment.
Intel cloned the amd64 instruction set for their processors so most of the software developed/patched for amd64 is also usable on their 64 bit CPUs.
Not to mention downloading it, trying it, throwing it away a day later because the browser you used before was still better (opera in my case, tried firefox at least 4-5 times since it is usable).
Isn't (wasn't ?) Kylik just Delphi for Linux. I don't think any parts of wine are written in Delphi (a.k.a. Visual Pascal for MDI-Haters).
The point with startups is not "it gets you richer than before" but "It gets you rich or broke depending on the quality of work" and this not on a company but on an individual worker level.
The problem with your suggestions is that most of what you call "dumb it down a bit" is really "make it a bit more like windows". Most newbie-relevant parts of the OS are really quite simple to use, they are just different than Windows. Making it more like Windows would actually reduce Linux' worth for users that already learned the things that bother you as a Windows user. I won't argue that Linux is perfectly easy to use in all aspects but the tasks of Joe User (and the installation of a non-hacker distro) are at least as easy as with Windows.
Then why don't we see Linux worms infecting webservers? After all webservers are much easier to find having a public domain name and all.
The difference is that doctors usually sell medication or a cure, not a preventive product.
...buy the album online, used. That means you have to make room for album art, booklet and the actual physical media and you have to rip it yourself including all the problems some copy-protected CDs throw in your way to have the music in a convenient format.
There is a huge difference between "master tape cinema screen quality" and "consumer less than 10 inch screen" quality.
It is reasonable to expect them to read the TOS for a service they pay for. And 250$ isn't that much in admin time.
Probably because lots of /. posters have to fix machines of relatives or at their work running IE.
So you say all those big companies save the money so they won't have to lay off people when times are bad? Why are they killing jobs then even when they have enough money to pay their investors part of their high profits. Shouldn't they stop paying their investors high percentages first, then use up their reserves and lay off people (in high numbers, I don't talk about incompetent workers) only as a last resort?
You forgot:
: All of the above in the US: For any problem the solution is more campaign funding
You have some company thousands of miles away to blame when something goes wrong.
If you use visio you probably use the wrong tool (visio) to create the wrong tool (diagrams) for the job.
When there is only one Linux Distro left the Idea of FOSS is already dead in Linux.
That might help for outgoing traffic. Incoming traffic is much harder to control.
I guess if you could spoil the game with telling people 5 sentences before they play it wouldn't be good enough to play anyway.
Considering the relative lack of success of Java and Mono to provide more than 1% or 2% of the apps the average user has running/installed on his desktop we probably shouldn't integrate any of these into the OS.
You are right about "good enough" although I think the Sun Implementation is a perfect example of this "good enough" quality and far from perfect.
How about stopping to think as "them" and "us" in these matters? Space offers hard problems even if we see all successful missions as a success and don't regard half of them as failures simply because another nation did them.
You would still have radioactive fallout all over the area when the rocket explodes.
Don't forget the fuel cost with most other propulsion systems.