On Wednesday 05 May 2004 5:45 pm, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
While the above argument looks obvious, in the proposition 3. `Good' is difficult to define. Otherwise there is no problem.
Would you like to attempt to define or provide parameters for a good software, let us begin a new thread.
Nagarjuna,
I have to say that I need to learn to write like you. I've been wanting to say the same thing in my previous responses to Tarun, but obviously failed badly.
Tarun,
I too am very keen on the details on what's not good about the existing 'free' software.
I recollect having problems trying to get my wife to using free software about 3 years back when I had a Pentium 166 Mhz with 32 MB RAM because I made her switch to using 'mutt' and 'lynx' instead of 'Outlook Express' and 'Internet Explorer' ... ;-)
With that kind of horse power, X Windows did not run very well.
But for past one year I have a Celeron with 128 MB RAM and my wife can't tell the difference between Windoze and GNU/Linux (Knoppix/Debian).. The KDE-XP Theme makes the job even that much easier to help users make the switch.
http://themes.kde.org/content/show.php?content=1499
I really want to know what the issues are with free software...
Regards
Rishi