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11-08-2006, 02:31 PM

ok this is something I understand from that day, closed protocols, but then again yaar, they paid a lot of money to develop, u just can't expect them to open it, it will be copied soon & they will loose money

GAIM thing was just an example

Skyora

Ever heard of driver feedback or support, if u need something at least make a request, there are official NVIDIA, ati, 3dlabs forums out there already. By the way, Linux is all openGL, so most of the features are already supported in the current Linux drivers

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Open source is about doing things because you _want_ to. If you want GAIM webcam support, write it yourself. You can't _make_ others do it, because they're doing it because they want to. If they don't, they won't.

Ok, so u r again clearly saying, that everyone who uses Linux should be a coder, cos if there is a single feature missing which I want, should I learn to code, despite of being a simple user. U need to remove this mentality, not everyone out there is a programmer, Linux can never excel in desktop like this.

I said to make Linux easy, cos the average Joe out there doesn't want to code something for it work, they don't need to in case of Windows or Mac OS, they give feedback & then the company makes it for them.

Mehul u said, one can charge for Linux, then why not charge man, I mean, Rs 1000 for an OS is not bad, but it should have these features that a general user wants, & he should be able to request it to the company. Mandriva & Linspire are good in this regard though, then why not the others.

Only because of these shortcomings, Linux is treated like an OS for geeks, or programmers, not the general user out there, because of which they are afraid to try it