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« on: March 02, 2011, 04:28 PM »
the biggest problem with Linux, OpenOffice and relative project is that they are created not in order to bring innovation, but to resemble as much as possible to Microsoft products
for example, the main feature of OpenOffice is that "it looks so much like MS Office, it has increase compatibility with MS Office, it can do many of the things MS Office does, etc", instead of bringing a totally new innovative interface, totally new features, totally new and better file handling, memory handling, etc
so, who would use OpenOffice? only a geek that wants to create and use something that MS already has created (just like a university thesis: create an MS Office clone) or only users that want to use something different from MS Office, because they hate MS or because they don't have money for MS Office
the biggest challenge OpenOffice, Linux, etc must overcome is this:
a user thinks that doc documents are meant to be opened and edited by MS Office, why would he use OpenOffice for it, even it advertises that it is fully compatible?
consider Nvidia's slogan: Nvidia - the way is meant to be played. you can play games with other graphics cards, with emulators and so on, but it's not the way they meant to be played
you can use Linux and install Wine in order to run MS Office, right... does this sound clever?
ofcourse Linux has some advantages, eg possible faster startup, possible fewer reboots, etc, but these don't even touch everyday usage of an average user, in order to consider them a real advantage
all these thoughts from a user that has tried many many distros, window managers, OpenOffice from years ago, and find out how they fail to bring innovation and make the user think, I will definately switch to these alternatives
ofcourse these do not apply to numerous opensource projects are innovative and have real advantages
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