Killer apps/"selling" points of FC and GNU/Linux

[Harald Hoyer]

Avi Alkalay wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:27:33 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak
> <kyrre at solution-forge.net> wrote:
> 
>>On the server side things are looking better - as far as i can see,
>>Linux is often the preferred platform here for developers to develop on,
>>simply because it is the most widespread.
> 
> 
> Unfortunatelly this is not true. I worked with several Windows
> developers that were starting projects on Linux, and they couldn't
> wait for the day they'll go back to Windows IDEs. Linux is a
> wonderfull platform for developers as long as they have that
> hacker-spirit, as we have :-). Linux drawbacks for developers are too
> much configuration files to edit while deploying their software, like
> add user access to tty on /etc/security/console.perms, or simply
> activating a needed Apache module for their CGI. Oh, and configuration
> files location and format differ from distro to distro, so all
> deployments must be done by hand, with a human brain, and almost not
> automations (they usally don't know sed, perl, rpm, etc, and probably
> will not learn it). Also, the FHS is wonderful, but they don't know
> it, so they ask "why /etc, why /bin, why /usr/bin ?".
> 
> Microsoft's most killer apps are their IDEs and development
> frameworks. Because they know how strategic is to have the developers
> (killer and business apps) working for them.

Did you show them kdevelop??
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