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Nine Attitude Problems in Free and Open Source Software (Datamation)Nine Attitude Problems in Free and Open Source Software (Datamation)Posted Oct 21, 2008 14:26 UTC (Tue) by forthy (guest, #1525)In reply to: Nine Attitude Problems in Free and Open Source Software (Datamation) by chromatic Parent article: Nine Attitude Problems in Free and Open Source Software (Datamation)
Note also that many people who rant about me-to-software don't even know the innovative. When you have OpenOffice.org (me-too), you have at the same time LaTeX+LyX (very original, innovative free software, with TeX being even older than the FSF, LyX being older than KDE, and even though still unmatched by Word and clones). Why do people copy an inferior approach like that of Word? Because the non-coding stupid users that have no vote (as the article tells you) want it that way! Anyway, there's nothing wrong with clones. Commercial software does clones all the time, too. Word and Excel are in no way original software; not even Lotus 1-2-3 was. People just like things being done a particular way, and so clones come into existence. Just being different for the sake of being different doesn't cut the mustard.
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