Most OS alternatives don't offer features that aren't in the commercial versions. The only exceptions are the success stories: Firefox did add a lot of features that IE could only dream of, and Writer can export to PDF, but that's where it ends. GIMP and other Open Office progs run miles behind the commercial products, that's why it doesn't break through. Joe Average copies Photoshop and MS Office from his neighbor, so to him it seems free anyway. Why should he bother to install "another" free product that has less features than the fancy commercial software everyone else uses?
Open Source should be innovative and come up with features the commercial equivalent doesn't have; that's the only way it can gain big public success.
Honestly, do you really think that Pluto cares what we, a far far away planet with a questionable society, think about them? I'm sure they laugh at us.
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And worst of all: they removed the "Home" button in the navigation toolbar.
Seriously, I used that button a lot.
Free as in "Google"
Most OS alternatives don't offer features that aren't in the commercial versions. The only exceptions are the success stories: Firefox did add a lot of features that IE could only dream of, and Writer can export to PDF, but that's where it ends. GIMP and other Open Office progs run miles behind the commercial products, that's why it doesn't break through. Joe Average copies Photoshop and MS Office from his neighbor, so to him it seems free anyway. Why should he bother to install "another" free product that has less features than the fancy commercial software everyone else uses? Open Source should be innovative and come up with features the commercial equivalent doesn't have; that's the only way it can gain big public success.
Honestly, do you really think that Pluto cares what we, a far far away planet with a questionable society, think about them? I'm sure they laugh at us.