Posted 06/18/2009 at 09:05:42pm

In the real world one would use the well-proven system "Estrada or Nada" to determine if one is hot or not.  Once again, MS is so late to the game they are embarrassing themselves. 

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Posted 06/15/2009 at 09:52:22am

I proposed this idea to my partner just a few months back. It is certainly heavy on peoples' minds as we all look for cheaper software that does a far better job than Microsoft products, and is far cheaper than  many other major  products.

 My partner is a Linux guru and I am the lowest common denominator end-user in many respects. I look to accomplish a project and his recommendations always point me to open-source web sites. There I find myself struggling to figure out why any human being would go through the learning curve of setting some of those applications up. My partner thinks that I (and most others in our company) are plainly whiners.


With that in mind, there is a lot of great free stuff out there, and I think we will reach a point where there are highly complex programs - CAD, music editing, photo editing, etc., that are one click away from installation. Millions of people will buy the photo editor, rather than just a few thousand people. The competition will mean that the major brands will not be able to charge $500, $1200, or such any more, but if they sell a much higher volume as a result of the price deflation, they should make up for the price loss with the volume sales. Imagine a complex photo editor on every single PC. That is where the open-source movement could help to take us.

Having an easy to navigate repository will result in these or even completely different paradigm shifts, any of which will mean individual freedom will explode like nothing we have ever seen, even with respect to the history changing Windows and World Wide Web successes. 

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