what does GNU/Linux still need to be accepted on the desktop

Charles R MacDonald

GNU/Linux is by now a very capable collection of software that together (kernal and addons) is capable of meeting the needs of orgainizations as large as the military, and as small as a home office, yet we are still seeing vast anounts of money being spent on closed source products that are less useful.

Large organizations often have software selected by committees who use "Bullet Points" to decide what features they would like to have, a process that frequently is favorable to some non-free suppliers, particularly when they have the wherewithall to seed the technical press with Fluff article that talk about those very same bullet point features.

Software features that are included in these Bullet points often are not standards based, but instead only work corectly with that vendors product.

Integrated features also seem to sell well, even though a modular approch allows for easy upgrades and phased deployments.