Re:The Linux Alternative Project
by gaius on Saturday January 24, 2009 @11:52AM
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Ermm, no. Not even close. Access is a tool for building simple GUI database applications that also happens to contain an embedded database for said applications. This is what I meant in my GIMP comment; the Linux community doesn't understand what the users of any of this stuff are trying to do. So they just make something that looks a bit like it, and wonder why no-one seems interested in switching.
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Not so long ago, free software barely had browsers that were acceptable to the mainstream. Now it does. It'll get to Access, it just takes time. Free Software still has a lot of ground to make up, but it is gaining ground on proprietary software.