On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Robert McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's kind of missing the whole point of open source. The advantage > of distributed and uncontrolled development is that everybody goes in > whichever direction they want and explores the possibilities for > solving a problem to their own satisfaction. The fact there are a > multitude of solutions is an advantage as we can each select from them > to get something we are happy with. > > Dictating the "right" way of doing something and getting everybody to > work on it is highly unlikely to actually get the best solution as > there is no perfect person to be the dictator. It also precludes the > possibility that there are a range of options because different people > want different things. > > If you want someone else to do the choosing then you can go for your > distro's default and not worry about it. > > It really annoys me when people preset choice as a problem. It might > be intimidating to a new user if they are presented with a huge number > of options but that is an argument for how we should be presenting > things to the new user not an argument for limiting the choices > available. > > OK, I'll stop ranting now :) > > Robert > > I definitely agree with you Robert. I believe they (Mozilla, Google, and MS) are going a bit more than just a browser... they are going to mash the browser into the desktop environment... this is just the beginning. Tiago Vieira
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