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Re: Shawn Gordon answers all the questions :)
by Jacek on Friday 31/Aug/2001, @09:42
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Not everything can be free "as in beer" forever. If there is no money to be made in Linux, no one will be interested in developing software for it, outside of open-source enthusiasts...and let's face it, realistically how much work can one get done while working part-time on a project?
Simply put, there is not enough open-source programmers to fulfill ALL the needs of Linux, so there will be niches here and there where commercial companies can fill in.
The only issue in this matter that theKompany might hit is the status of Kivio (seems like the free Koffice version will still be maintained) and the demise of free Quanta might cause some bad publicity as well...but if the Hancom suite is really so good, well then let it be....plus someone can always take the last GPL-ed version of Quanta and fork it.
The bottom line is that it runs on both Mac, Linux and Windows. If it achieves some reasonable penetration on Windows, then moving people to Linux later on becomes much less of an issue, since they can keep their fav office suite.
So, I guess in the long run, things might even out..
Regardless of how things turn out, kudos to Shawn for pulling a real rabbit out of a hat.
I wanted to buy MS Office for my wife but at $450 Cdn I said "forget it" and got here the beta build of OpenOffice for her spreadsheet and she's quite happy with it. MS software is just so overpriced, that it has a real soft underbelly to it...hit it with a lower price and equal features and compatibility and this could have some success on Windows...with an obvious spillover for Linux as well... |
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