Desktop Linux (fwd)

[bmcculley at rcn.com]

Michael Costolo wrote:
>--- Travis Roy <travis at scootz.net> wrote:
>> This is very true. The Linux community needs to understand
that the 
>> gimp is not photoshop, openoffice is not MS office, GNUCash
is not 
>> quicken. 
>
>But then again, they weren't intended to be.  People have
this hangup over software
>titles.  It boggles the mind.
>

Don't confuse labels (titles) with objects (feature content).

People aren't hung up on the fact that gimp is not called
photoshop, they're hung up on the fact that gimp does not have
features that photoshop has AND that people use.

Feature bloat is a red herring, people don't notice the
absence of features they don't use.  They do notice when
features they want to use are not there, are not easily found
even if there, or work significantly differently.

It boggles my mind that this is a hard concept for some of us.

-Bruce McCulley