If Modzilla solves shortcomings in IE for businesses and organizations they'll make some traction.
I'm curious... was that intentional?
The best chance of an open software platform for a phone is for manufacturers to all jump on the Android bandwagon but allow 'unlocked' phones to be bought in stores as with traditional GSM phones.
"Unlocked" in that case would have to mean more than it does with traditional GSM phones. You can use an unlocked phone on any carrier, but that doesn't mean you can flash whatever firmware you want.
This probably isn't exactly what you want, but check out XDA-Developers. Limited to HTC phones, but firmware from carriers and the manufacturer. Sure you're mostly limited to Windows Mobile, but they've had luck getting Android and Debian working on some models.
Moving from Microsoft XP to Vista would not have brought us many advantages and Microsoft said it would require training of users. Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy.
Lower costs of ownership were delivered by stepping away from non free problems. Imap email servers, for example, enabled the use of Thunderbird or any of the other fine free mail clients. M$ on the other hand, has not been working with free standards and any piece of their software creates multiple dependencies on other of their software packages. GNU/Linux networking has also reduced staff travel requirements.
We will be seeing more of this and organizations that moved towards free standards earlier have a significant competitive advantage over those that bought into "assurance" plans."
It works (* mostly *) if you have supported hardware, but the moment you look at some unsupported video card or network driver, it pitches a fit and leaves you with a black eye.
I think if you're discussing video cards, you've already gone over the average users heads. Really you're just alienating the mid-tech-savvy group (I'm included here... I love my dual monitors). That maybe a stretch, but I'm just surprised at the lack of "I gave parent/child/puppy a Linux machine and they were easily able to use it for browsing/music/document/porn" stories. Aside from a few artists, everyone I know is summed up by just a few applications, put the spotlight on these and it should at least spark some interest. The only distribution i've ever used was Ubuntu, and it was insanily easy the first start up, within minutes I was on the web and had all my updates installed. I'm planning on dual-booting on my netbook with XP (which came with StarOffice by the way), and as long as it works better than XP, it should be fine for simple tasks.
It might be easier to make a knockoff of the "Mojave" experience Windows had, or get some Justin Long look alike and throw Linux in as a spoof.
You see but you do not observe. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"
