On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:06:01 -0400, "Jeff Spaleta" <jspaleta(a)gmail.com>
said:
On 8/24/05, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> What do we have to say to her?
Honestly.. I'll tell her that perhaps linux is not right for her...
and to check out other for-pay linux distributions which include
proprietary technology instead of being completely open source. Moving
to completely open source solutions has an opportunity cost, you
either value the benefits of open source over the costs or you
don't... and that determination comes down to personal situations.
I'd also tell her that crossing any operating system boundary has a
portability price associated with. The price is higher when you
crossing from proprietary to an open vendor. And while there are some
technical solution which help.. there is no universal solution to the
problem..either for proprietary binary portability or proprietary
content portability.
I think this is a model worth looking at - CodeWeavers' "Truth in
Advertising: Real Dirt":
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/truth_in_advertising/the_rea...
They say straight out in a simple language "What works well" *and* "What
sort of works" and "What doesn't work"
As Jeff says, we can't provide binary compatibility. Maybe we can make a
plus point of being absolutely straight about these kinds of things and
differentiating Fedora from those who say "Linux is ready for the
desktop", without talking about the trade-offs that users must make.
--
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