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Originally Posted by Jaime_Astorga
The most important thing for open-source software developers is that it is good, so over time good features tend to added if they are appropriate (as opposed to popular features getting added in every new version as a marketing point regardless of whether they improve the product or not). Tom Nadea had this to say regarding the differences between the proprietary software development of Windows to the open-source development of Linux distributions:
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The difference here is, in every release cycle Microsoft always listens to its most ignorant customers. This is the key to dumbing down each release cycle of software for further assaulting the non-PC population. Linux and OS/2 developers, OTOH, tend to listen to their smartest customers. This necessarily limits the initial appeal of the operating system, while enhancing its long-term benefits. Perhaps only a monopolist like Microsoft could get away with selling worse products each generation -- products focused so narrowly on the least-technical member of the consumer base that they necessarily sacrifice technical excellence. Linux and OS/2 tend to appeal to the customer who knows greatness when he or she sees it.
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I'm not a computer expert at all so may be totally wrong but aren't even the "experts" saying Windows 7 is the best version of the Windows operating system yet? Some even say it is getting very close to being comparable to the Mac OS.(which, from the context I see those comments in, I can only assume is some sort of high praise indeed)
If that is the case it seems odd to suggest MS is producing worse products every generation.
Cheers,
PKFFW