Subj : Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo
To   : Tracker1
From : Deuce
Date : Sun Jul 03 2005 03:49 am

  Re: Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo
  By: Tracker1 to Deuce on Sat Jul 02 2005 23:20:00

 > > Aside from that fact, Linux has good-enoughed the rest of the OS market to
 > > brink of starvation.  I do have high hopes for SuSE though... we'll see ho
 > > shakes out in a year or two.  I still wish that Plan 9 would get some adhe
 > > and really do up a new OS that does more things Right.  The HURD has promi
 > > too... but it's not even where Plan 9 was 10 years ago yet.  Unfortunately
 > > you can't port Mozilla to it, it's effectively a useless OS currently.
 > 
 > Yeah, I haven't seen much that works *BETTER* than commercial alternatives,
 > OpenOffice.org and Mozilla products aside, and those don't really include
 > installers, they're included with about every distro on the planet... Hoping
 > for more from SuSE as well, especially with Novell behind the wheel, time wi
 > tell of course.

I've seen quite a few things that work better... and I don't list OOo and
Mozilla among them.  OOo has never been better than Office... and I doubt if it
ever will be.  As for Mozilla products, well... I'd just start a flame war I
don't want to have.

But for huge complex programs with industry-specific features... well... open
source will probobly never make it as good as closed source.  Remember that
most of the OOo code was developed as closed source... as well as a good chunk
of Mozilla stuff.  But, I can easily imagine Mozilla becoming "better" than IE
due to the fact that programmers use it.  I can't see OSS replacements for
CorelDraw, AutoCAD, Office, Illustrator, etc. etc. ad nauseum ever being better
than the commercial versions.

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