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click here. RE[5]: Of course it is by butters on Thu 8th Mar
2007 07:08 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: Of course it is" Member
since:  There is no significant piece of open-source software
that does not exist in Windows. Firefox, Open Office, Apache,
GIMP, Blender, Second Life... but all are available for Windows.
As it stands right now, Linux support and functionality is a
subset of Windows support and functionality.  In general, you're
right. Consumers choose a platform predominantly based on the
apps which are available for it. However, the trend towards
consumers choosing OSS applications on Windows means that the
Windows-only applications are gradually becoming less
significant. Moreover, the features of the platform itself are
becoming more significant as the apps are increasingly available
on both platforms.  Windows will always have some software that
Linux does not, whereas most Linux software will gradually
become available on Windows. However,