Well said Robert!
On 1 Sep 2008, at 22:46, Robert McWilliam wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 09:12:48PM +0100, Philip Wyett wrote: >> What is really beginning to worry me is that there is too much >> choice of >> applications in the Open Source world. Instead of working to make >> what >> we have better and bite into bug #1 and give users a base set of >> applications they can get comfortable with and trust, we are going to >> leave maybe switchers to Linux with the mass confusion of which >> application is best and sticking with Windows. > > 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 > ________________________________________________________ > Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ormiret.com > > I am in shape. Round is a shape. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
