How is arguing with Craig like wrestling a pig? After a while you start to get tired and dirty, and suddenly you realize the pig is enjoying it. --Phil M. >---- >Of course all of the background you gave has absolutely nothing to do >with the consumer market unless Visual Studio has just recently become a >consumer item. > >As to whether FOSS can beat Microsoft in the programming market - that >happens only when businesses demand to use FOSS. > >As to whether FOSS can beat Microsoft in the consumer market - that may >never occur but I believe that it ultimately will. The fact that is that >it is already capable of handling most home users needs. It just isn't >as elegant, doesn't handle the variety of hardware quite as neatly and >doesn't have the fringe software that people think that they want - at >least not yet. > >Back to the tools though - they are constantly getting better. > >Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss