Hm. I think the issue below is serious. And one we can address. But do others think that way or believe otherwise?
louis > On 20 Apr 2015, at 13:25, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On 20 Apr 2015, at 13:06, Guy Waterval <waterval....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Or have you not noticed that there are >>> precious few native (as opposed to virtualised) open-source productivity >>> tools to be found ready for the enterprise? > > to rephrase: productivity software, especially for enterprise, is > overwhelmingly dominated by proprietary apps sold by very large multinational > corporations. The apps available are often "free," as in beer but not free as > in speech. They are not open source. It does not matter if the operating > system is Android or iOS or whatever, though there are some differences, at > least in the marginal OSs, which represent a minute fraction of the total > used. > > What this means is that as tablets (however imagined) are brought into the > enterprise (public or private sector), open source is almost entirely absent. > Yes, many apps use open source languages but so what? The UX model promoted > by the smart, mobile device shuts out user intervention, with some exception, > and there seems to be nothing organised that I can see that’s trying to > change this arrangement and make it easier to create, distribute and even > promote open source productivity apps on mobile devices. > > Yes, I am aware that tablets are falling out of popularity, but I also am > aware that the tablet as imagined by Apple and incarnated in the iPad, was > designed and is still envisioned as a consumer entertainment device, not as a > work device (though that is changing) and that efforts to insinuate the > tablet form factor into enterprise, as Microsoft has tried, have not > succeeded. However, the mobile device is succeeding in areas where investment > capital is less visible and it is likely to be the preferred mode for the > billions that will be coming fresh to school, work, and other areas where > computing devices are de rigeur (now or soon). And these users, in Africa, > Latin America, and the rest of the world, rich or poor, will be using… > proprietary software. > > So, although the situation on the desktop (and by this one means also the > laptop, of course; one refers here to the UX not hardware) is generally not > bad for open source, that’s not so for the mobile UX. I doubt very much that > Ubuntu or Moz. will put a dent into hard proprietary wave. What would, > however, would be mobile apps that can work smoothly with existing desktop > productivity software installations. Like Corinthia. > > best > louis
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