Linux/OSS developers: stop following and start leading
This morning, I read a piece by my Education IT colleague, Chris Dawson, entitled Making “hamburger of Microsoft’s cash cow” and I was struck by one important observation:
“Open Office needs to worry less about duplicating features of Office and more about “selling” itself as a viable piece of software in its own right. “
The thrust of the article was a discussion of a Microsoft study regarding “user satisfaction” with Microsoft Office as compared to OpenOffice in an educational setting. We don’t have to guess what Microsoft concluded. (See Microsoft funds questionable study attacking open source in education.)
I’ve been around long enough to know that whether it’s Microsoft or some independent entity conducting these studies, their conclusions should always be taken with a grain of salt. Conclusions mean very little if one doesn’t also take into consideration “the conditions of the test” — those initial assumptions made by those conducting the study (presumably) in order to try to remove bias from the results.
So, putting the study aside …
I want to talk about the quote above and discuss for a moment what it takes for a product to gain and retain market dominance.
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