____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 29 September 2007 09:31 : \____
> "Non scrivetemi" <nonscrivetemi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> chrisv wrote:
>>
>>> >> One of my best friends has been using Linspire for years, now. Works
>>> >> for him...
>>> >
>>> >It does. But Apple OS X also works as a BSD. But it's not open source.
>>> >It's aggressive lock-in and restriction of choice. We're back were we
>>> >started -- another Windows.
>>>
>>> He's not locked in. He could switch tomorrow to another distro, if he
>>> wanted to.
>>
>> That's sorta like saying you're not locked into Windows because you can
>> switch to OSX/Linux/BSD.
>>
>> Bad driving is bad driving even if it's not Micro$oft at the wheel.
>>
>
> I quite agree. I don't know if you saw my other posting, but I was
> highlighting that lock-in is about an exit barrier. That might be the
> cost of replacing packages you've already bought, or the cost of
> replacing hardware, or the cost of redoing work which is stuck in
> proprietary formats, or the cost of paying for tools to unpick those
> proprietary formats, and so on.
>
> The point being that there is always lock-in, it's a question of how
> large the exit barrier is.
Linspire supports OOXML (translators). If that's not a lockin, I don't know
what is. It also enabled Microsoft to pretend that OOXML is supported by other
companies, which fills our world with even /more/ vendor lockin. Let's not
even go into Linspire's proprietary codecs...
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