Re: Why Open Sores Software Sucks

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Alias wrote:
DanS wrote:
"BRUCE STARINSKI" <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:hbnquj$m90$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
<SNIP STUPID CR*P>

Those who criticize windows have one strong argument in common,
security flaws and virus threats. Do you ever think that a virus
writer or hacker will get what he wanted from writing program for
Linux? He wants to see his virus on the news, to cause lot of damage,
for people to talk about it. To achieve this he has to write a virus
for an operating system which is widely used, which is windows.

So writing *another* virus for Windows that may become mildly successful
is more desirable and more noteworthy than being the first to write a
successful one for Linux that gets released into the wild, lives , and
multiplies, and becomes some type of problem ?
I'd think being the first would be much more impressive than to be the
thousandth.

<more incoherant babble snipped>

Let's look at fundamental issues of Open Source software

<!--[if !supportLists]-->1. <!--[endif]-->Bad User Interface Design-
If you have ever used Linux you'll experience the troubles that you
might go through unless you have some good knowledge in computers. The
problems with open source programming I s that they only think about
programming but not about user friendliness or the interface.

Incorrect.

Ubuntu tries to copy windows XP,

This means absolutely nothing. A window based GUI is a windows based GUI. There are 4 main 'desktops' available for Linux and they all offer many of the same features, and each has their own features as well.

but still need lots of improvements
in other areas.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->2. <!--[endif]-->Bad Documentation-Most of
the time the documentation is written in a way that only experts can
understand. When you use open source software, if you encounter even a
simple problem, you may have to read through 100 of documents and user
forum until you find a solution.

This may be true. But who reads documentation.

I installed Ubuntu once and internet
was not working, it took me one week to find the solution, many would
have already given up.

You'd admit to that ?

<!--[if !supportLists]-->3. <!--[endif]-->Give us what they want- This
is the main disadvantage of open source software projects. Can we play
video games in Linux or Ubuntu? Ask this question from an Open Source
guy, he will immediately answer "We don't play games".

Ask another one and he may answer differently. I would answer that there are some games available (and I'm not talking lame games like 2d anything) but many of the windows games will play under WINE. I'd then relate my personal experience that when I installed and ran Quake3 under WINE, it actually ran better under WINE than running as native binaries in Windows. Many games function properly under WINE.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->4. <!--[endif]-->Slow development rate- Since
so many developers may join and leave the project, it may take a lot
of time for a new guy to join the ongoing project and contribute
efficiently. This may have a huge impact on the future of the project.
There are millions of lines of coding; it could break down on its own
weight. ( Check the speed of windows XP vs Red Hat Linux)

Duh. Any new person coming into a project, commercial or not, will have to spend time getting up to speed.

Using logic and reason with these guys is a futile endeavor.

Alias

Projecting again?...LOL!
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