powers of four

This outcome of the browser war has led at least a few to the conclusion that open-source is the answer, and that open-source will inevitably recreate what has been developed commercially, and either surpass that commercial product, or force it to evolve. Sadly, I don’t see this happening particularly quickly, or on a wide scale – OpenOffice is playing catch-up in its efforts to provide an out-of-the-box replacement for Microsoft Office, GIMP lags far behind Photoshop, and linux, despite widespread adoption in a few key fields (namely budget servers and embedded devices) still lags far behind Windows and Mac in many areas.

For some reason, this post makes me miss running enlightenment on a regular basis. Maybe this weekend I'll install the latest build of e17 on my Ubuntu desktop.