Makes me think of an extension to the Ubuntu tagline: "Linux for human beings".

"Linux for human beings, by human beings."

I always thought more people would migrate from MS Office to OpenOffice to *avoid* the Ribbon and stick with a more familiar UI.

I say this as an OpenOffice user of many years, and as someone who has never used this fancy new Ribbon business in more recent versions of MS Office. The Ribbon in MS Office is one feature that helps keeps me in OpenOffice, and keeps me from upgrading the old version of MS Office that I have hanging around just in case I need it.

Ideally, both old and new interfaces would be available, and could be selected in the Options. In reality, this probably puts a lot more load on the developers to maintain two quite different interfaces ....

Moving to gravel roads sounds like a strategy to combat unemployment ... now more people can be employed to maintain the high-maintenance roads.

The article is primarily about the situation in Australia. There are no Panera Bread outlets in Australia, so irrespective of the food quality (or lack thereof), this just isn't an option.

I think poor old Mandriva could have suffered due to the lack of good English documentation (including developer docs and community forums), and the bias toward French language hasn't been good for them overall. Then again, it's been a few years now since I used that distro, it may have changed.

It may be great for French speakers, but my experience back when I used Mandriva (and "Mandrake") daily on my Desktop PC was that good English technical documentation was lacking, although I noticed lots of developer docs in French on the wiki that I couldn't read. Ultimately this was a major driver that pushed me toward Ubuntu ... the detailed technical documentation provided by the community (in English) beat Mandriva's docs hands down.

For your sake, I hope wk2 is a pseudonym ... "Choose Your Own Adventure" is trademarked ...