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On Thursday 08 January 2004 20:58, Kai Hendry wrote:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/ut1_report/report_main.html Sun invested in Usability testing with Gnome.
Thank you.
I would like to fire off an email to Jack, but where is his email ?
I think to the editor, and I think an email signed by several of us will be more useful than an individual email, especially, and please don't take this as at all pejorative, one of your typical ones.
His last paragraph, about the billionaire is particularly naive. With Microsoft as a monopoly there will only be one IT billionaire, and a lot of MSCE peons.
THis raises a point I didn't attempt to write into my first draft - the commoditization of IT, which is on the whole for consumers at least a good thing. Section Draft 1 ---------------------- FLOSS development of solutions for common tasks is part of a commoditization of a technology. This is not new and has applied to vacuum cleaners, vehicles and many other technologies. The consumer is not badly served by a steady reduction in the price of software that does office tasks or supports other software in ordinary work. Neither is the entrepreneur or business man badly served by it. His path to riches ceases to be one of locking a customer in by controlling the format of their data, or of making high profits from single sales, and beocmes one of providing excellent and timely support, and volume sales of inexpensive objects (for instance CDs and instructions full of Free software). The programmer also is well served by it. Programmers prefer to work on interesting tasks, and it is likely that working on the first example of a solution to a new class of solutions to currently unsolved problems is better for all of us than working at another example of a closed source system for a customer remarkably similar to many others. End draft I think it makes it too long. -- Dr Adrian Midgley I use Free software because it is better http://www.defoam.net/ They carefully didn't ask. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.