Comment 405 for bug 1

Tony Ruottu said : Ubuntu is not fragmented in that
way. I see no reason why you should expect Ubuntu to be compatible with
some other operating system, say Fedora.

Yeah I think that Ubuntu made a big step into gathering people and functionnalities were Debian had already made big works. Here I don't want to critic the huge variety or the way Open Source software are created because that's very great. I speak about accessibility and simplicity. To the end user, everything is a question of simplicity. The question was about the major place of Microsoft in the world of the OS, I think that if Ubuntu can gather all the treasures of the OpenSource world in a easy to use way, it would lead to a serious popularity. Most of people already use Ubuntu because it's all automatic, easy to use and with serious extension possibilities.

Tony Ruotty said : They are. See http://freedesktop.org/

Yeah I knew that, I was talking more about a fusion between KDE or Gnome but It's maybe pure dream, I don't know the technical details beside all these projects. I just meant that working in team makes the projects stronger. I don't approve the hegemonic Microsoft position and the "all-in-one-unique-solution" and I certainly don't expect the OpenSource world to follow that, but I think that the talents of the OpenSource teams that all work on their side could lead to powerful results if there was less division. There's some projects that are separated because they do very different work, but I think that there's a lot of projects that try to aim the same target. Why these projects should be separated? Wouldn't they be better and stronger if they work together? Wouldn't that be easier for people that will search for a music program? This could lead to the creation of more complete programs.

Tony Ruotty said : I don't think people are usually that interested in security. At least
not as long as lack of it doesn't disturb their daily activities.

Yeah you're right. But the point is that 80% of PCs are infected. Finally, people care about security because they almost all experience problems about it.

Tony Ruotty said : They are not?

I've seen serious complete information website about Ubuntu. ex : ubuntu-fr.org . But like I said earlier, I think that all this massive information could be more and more accurate, detailled, classified, translated to make more complete information sources. Not just blogs here and here but very complete information sources. People need to find comprehensive solutions!