OLS Day 3: Failed experiments, Linux-Tiny, and the Linux Standard Base (WHAT IS WRONG?)

Posted Jul 26, 2004 17:43 UTC (Mon) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
Parent article: OLS Day 3: Failed experiments, Linux-Tiny, and the Linux Standard Base (NewsForge)

How about sharing or promove a single file Office format based on OASIS to Gnome and KDE offices ??... not to mention the general OOo better Microsoft filters as independent plugins, in a way that KDE and Gnome Offices could profit ?!

I belive the base idea of Michael Meeks is that OOo is the best project and that it should attract the efforts of the community, what is true, and a good idea,... but he puts it like a "hunt" to costumers, (in the case developers) very usual in agressive marketing campaigns... has the Linux community become a merchadizing 'thing' typical of corporate domination ?...
... no conspiracys and nothing really bad in that... even some very good aspects in it... the problem is that the corporations that dominate the Linux community right now in terms of financing and participating in projects are the ones that have lost badly to Microsoft... and seeming to continue not having many clues why they have lost so badly!

So this "corporate" leardership of Linux community continues with very very little political power, because they could not or would not focus in a general software/hardware platform centered in the needs of the masses of commun users, contrary to a hated Microsoft 'abuser' that continue focused and dominating the masses of users, and that inspite of a more than 20 years old GPL phylosophy that has gived all possible powers to that same users.

So this "corporate" leardership of the Linux community that was supposed to bring focus and a real 'standardizing' effort towards common software/hardware platforms to the typical had-hoc and super entusiastic explosion of the open source method, continues, inspite a growing "over publicised" number of sucess historys, yet without much of a real bang over a Microsoft domination of the Desktop, and specialy of the Server world, and associated applications(Office software bundle included of course).

The problem is that the Desktop and the Server are dominated clearly by the domestic, the SOHO and the Small to Medium Entreprises where the typical Desktop and the Server are from commoditezed parts and rarely have more than 1 phisical processor... is as if the nowaday "corporate" leardership of the Linux community never where tired of loosing to Microsoft... as if they cannot break completly the NIH sindrome and the profit focus... as if they are unabled or unwilling to make the decisive sacrifice towards IT world domination, and are only positioned to attract costumers(developers) to a "milk the caw" economy of scale... contrary to a small family style runned Microsoft, in the hands of old time school friends Gates and Ballmer, that never seemed to have minded to *lose* a fortune by *really* never having done nothing to prevent the domination of the Desktop by a *illegal* White Line that has never contributed a cent to Microsoft, but has enabled them to clearly dominate the gross of the Hardware industry, and wiht that the IT world.