You are MUCH more likely to die on the drive to the airport, than you are to die on an airplane.
Car accidents are never televised, because the news would be monotonous--someone dies in a car accident every 12 minutes! There are 40,000+ automotive fatalities AND 2.5+ million automotive injuries per year in the US alone.
The few hundred in a plane that crashes are guaranteed to be in the news not because of its brutality (have you ever seen a bad car accident?) but because it happens so infrequently.
The only thing threatening the safety of flying (statistically at least) is the fear of flying itself.
Isn't this this similar to what the LSB distribution certification http://www.freestandards.org/docs/FSG_Imperative_W P_Public.pdf is trying to ensure? That If someone is using LSB-certified distributions, that it is guaranteed to have certain components that are needed for developers trying to reach a broad linux demographic? And as distributions adopt futher revisions of LSB, things can only get better? The biggest hurdle I see is the continuing battle over gui-toolkits. But even then, there are projects trying to make a way for developers to make gui's that will use the toolkit of the user's desktop environment, the Portland Project, I believe.
Gnome, and I thought KDE support vector graphics already. SVG support has been a part of Gnome for quite a long time, for exactly the reason you're talking about.
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You are MUCH more likely to die on the drive to the airport, than you are to die on an airplane.
Car accidents are never televised, because the news would be monotonous--someone dies in a car accident every 12 minutes! There are 40,000+ automotive fatalities AND 2.5+ million automotive injuries per year in the US alone.
The few hundred in a plane that crashes are guaranteed to be in the news not because of its brutality (have you ever seen a bad car accident?) but because it happens so infrequently.
The only thing threatening the safety of flying (statistically at least) is the fear of flying itself.
Isn't this this similar to what the LSB distribution certification http://www.freestandards.org/docs/FSG_Imperative_W P_Public.pdf is trying to ensure? That If someone is using LSB-certified distributions, that it is guaranteed to have certain components that are needed for developers trying to reach a broad linux demographic? And as distributions adopt futher revisions of LSB, things can only get better? The biggest hurdle I see is the continuing battle over gui-toolkits. But even then, there are projects trying to make a way for developers to make gui's that will use the toolkit of the user's desktop environment, the Portland Project, I believe.
Gnome, and I thought KDE support vector graphics already. SVG support has been a part of Gnome for quite a long time, for exactly the reason you're talking about.