Avi Alkalay <avi@xxxxxxx>: > To help Eric fine tune his accuracy, I have to say that I work in a > global well known IT company, on Linux solutions sales. We fight > everyday for Linux not to die in the commercial world, because of this > annoying "missing packages". On the commercial desktop space this is > specially annoying. > > This is so ridiculous that you still can find Linux sales people > making Linux presentations on Linux events using MS PowerPoint. Just > because to use Linux isn't that straight forward as Andy may think. > > I believe that too much religion in our OSS world doesn't help much. > Exactly as real religions, it makes its followers a bit blind to see > whats really happening out there. > > So I think Eric is pretty accurate in its statement. If this list weren't 99% populated by techies, you'd see hundreds of mails like this. One of the things I make a special point of doing is keeping in touch with people who are in the trenches every day doing Linux conversions for SOHO customers. And kids, it's a whole 'nother world out there. Your average Linux developer is just *astonishingly* naive about what actual customers' priorities are and what drives technology adoption. I wish I had the luxury of such naivete. I wish we could fort up in our technical-specialist back-room niche, worship at the shrine of 100% undiluted free software, and not worry about what very powerful enemies will do if we don't outgrow their capacity to smother us. Alas, reality is not that kind. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
