On Thursday 02 September 2010 10:05 PM, Naveen Dhanuka wrote:
I guess computing is used for automation and electronisation of work so that it need not be replicated and can be reproduced at a click. Windows is apt for it. It has a class word-processor, a spreadsheet and a presentation making software. As a host OS it can give ease installation of the M$ Visual Studio and some popular, proprietary and open source DBs. Tell me a app which is not on Windows and on any other OS. Don't call them dumb users please. You can call them non-engineers and may be users.
Since you are a fan of doze, could you tell me how to make the app ffmpeg run and work in doze? It runs superbly in Linux. I could not get in working in doze. I wanted to integrate it into the 'video downloadhelper' plugin in Firefox. Closed Software has to many restrictions and limitations of use and to remove every restriction you got to shell out loads of money. It was to break this monopoly that Libre Software was born, to provide unrestricted access to use the software, to be able to study it and modify it and present the new improved modifications to the people, by the people. You cannot do this with closed software.
Take for example: If you bought the cheapest doze home edition, you could network it with 5 computers only. To add more computers, you would have to buy the more expensive pro edition but even that was limited to 10 machines. To network more machines you had to buy the server edition itself along with client licenses for every client machine, over and above having to buy a pro version for every client machine. In the home and pro editions, there was a restriction to all third party developers to prevent them from re-engineering or providing any patches that could increase the networking capacity of those editions. In Linux, you don't get restricted access like this. In Linux, a server is simply a package that runs a service. It is not a glorified operation system.