Comment One Component Model (Score -1) 843
I'm sure noone will read my post because there are already 500+ others, but anyway...
I stopped using Linux for the very same reason the article mentioned. There are umpteen different apps that all do the same thing and not one of them has every feature implemented or working. This was 2 years ago and it's only gotten worse. I'm a full time developer and I think the reason is fundamental, there needs to be a common component framework that all apps use. Windows has COM (ActiveX, DCOM, COM+, etc are all marketting terms, programatically they all work the same way and accomplish the same goal for various uses). On Linux there is XPCOM (Mozilla), there's KParts, there's Bonobo, there's another one for OpenOffice...As a developer, I don't know which to use...some are technically superior, but used in inferior apps and they don't always interop together and none are very fast. In addition, there is a real opportunity for inovation there and for all the complaining people here do about Microsoft, it's not the hardest thing to beat them on this front...a cross platform COM-like toolkit that is used by all Linux apps and could be ported to windows would wipe windows off the face of the earth in a very short amount of time.
I stopped using Linux for the very same reason the article mentioned. There are umpteen different apps that all do the same thing and not one of them has every feature implemented or working. This was 2 years ago and it's only gotten worse. I'm a full time developer and I think the reason is fundamental, there needs to be a common component framework that all apps use. Windows has COM (ActiveX, DCOM, COM+, etc are all marketting terms, programatically they all work the same way and accomplish the same goal for various uses). On Linux there is XPCOM (Mozilla), there's KParts, there's Bonobo, there's another one for OpenOffice...As a developer, I don't know which to use...some are technically superior, but used in inferior apps and they don't always interop together and none are very fast. In addition, there is a real opportunity for inovation there and for all the complaining people here do about Microsoft, it's not the hardest thing to beat them on this front...a cross platform COM-like toolkit that is used by all Linux apps and could be ported to windows would wipe windows off the face of the earth in a very short amount of time.
