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German Foreign Office explains open source elimination
From http://www.h-online.com/open/news/it...n-1241804.html
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Follow the money. I will bet, there are behind doors deals with all mighty
Micro$oft. Too bad making steps backwards. |
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As much as I like my OpenBSD the truth of the mater is that is just a tool. It is actually a tool of very limited purpose (network appliance OS) which also makes an outstanding (probably the best) desktop OS for a competent Unix user. However, it definitely has its limitation in professional environment, and I am not talking here about the Flash and Skype Just like airplanes are not intended to dive and submarines are not built to fly OpenBSD is not built do do certain things. Also the whole concept on depending on bunch of voluntaries is just unacceptable on the work place. Take a clue from RedHat vs Debian debate. |
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No single company or set of applications does *everything* right or wrong.
In the case of office, I rather like Ms Publisher. But have come to the conclusion that MS Outlook was spawned from the deepest depths of hell to assist the antichrist in sowing chaos. There's plenty of bad open source software, take BIND for example ("buggy internet name daemon"), another fairly famous example might be sendmail. I'm sure you can think of others. Open source does not guarantee anything what-so-ever about the quality of software, the skill level of the programmers does. What open source *does* guarantee is that 1) It's easier to see if the software is bad and 2) You can fix the software if it is bad and 3) You can extend or integrate the software.
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But all of these mentioned points are just futile if you aren't able to see/fix/whatever. A mere user is just condemned to believe in others. Nowadays we're confronted with a different attitude: use it and don't care about the rest. See e.g. Ubuntu, the iPad, etc. pp. The ones able to fix or actually _see_ something are a declining crowd in my opinion. I hope the future will prove me wrong ...
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A World is not the same as it was and I am happy that I am old. I had my OS/2 long time ago on 285 with 2 MB of RAM, StarOffice which was German this time and I did a job as I doing now on whatever computer. Internet? I used a Lynx, ftp email....it was time which I like it. Now is different and it is not more for me, it is empty...and at work we are doing the same as we did before (research, genetics) just money is different.
...and I agree with all of you. |
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I think a lot of it has to do with conditioning and I'm sure M$ knows this and uses it as a selling point etc.
Taking as an example a recent entry in the OpenBSD site undeadly.org: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=artic...20110420080633 Quote:
In other words, there were probably many complaints from end-users who were simply used to their own toolset. It's been my own personal experience that sometimes these same users are reluctant to learn new tools even if it might benefit them or their workflow later on--and at the cost of a slight learning curve. But as Mako_Elite and others have hinted at, I'm sure there are behind-the-scenes workings preying on the said attitudes of end-users. In the end, a sad situation. |
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