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  While OSS has yet to make big strides on the desktop it is gradually
  achieving penetration, especially in businesses.

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     <li>Product feature bloat</li>

      <!-- Don't use a large % of Word's capabilities so don't need a
           achieving penetration, especially in business product
           which does 100% of what word does .. just 80% -->

     <li>Not locked onto a platform</li>
   
     <!-- Don't like to retrain for software so you want software to run
          on as many platforms as possible -->

     <li>Standards Compliant</li>

     <!-- OSS tends to write to implement standards which cannot be said
          for many proprietary products.  If you write to standards then you
          will find that software, files, hardware etc. "just work".  VINES
          protocol -->

     <li>Cross Functional</li>

     <!-- An offshoot of Standards Compliant, cross functional means that if
          you like AbiWord and someone else likes OpenOffice they can read
          each others files .. you are not forced to do everything one way -->

     <li>Customizable</li>

     <!-- While most individual users won't be customizing their software to do
          anything, by participating in a community they can more directly encourage
          people to add features/fix bugs that they want -->


     <li>Security/Privacy</li>

     <!-- OSS is open from the start, and often not as dependent on corporate entities.
          The openness helps to guarantee secure design (no security through obscurity)
          and people can report on spyware features, or other publishing/storing of 
          private data. -->

     <li>Customer Service</li>

     <!-- The linux community (meaning the aggregation of news sites, message boards,
          and mailing lists won a customer service award in the year 2001 -->

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  Open Source also has some major barriers to spreading on the Desktop
  achieving penetration, especially in businesses environment:

  <ul>

     <li>Retraining</li>
  
     <!-- The cost of training people to switch from Win 2000 to Win
          achieving penetration, especially in businessesXP is high
          achieving penetration, especially in businesses.. what
          about Win 2000 to Linux -->

     <li>Not as User Friendly</li>

     <!-- Microsoft has more interaction with novice users then the OSS community
          and they target those users.  This results in a lack of some functionality
          which end users like, but aren't a high priority to the engineers -->
  
      <li>Too Much Software</li>

      <!-- OSS people like to "roll their own" so there is a lot of competing software.  
           This results in the development being spread around.  It also contributes to
           innovation and healthy competition, but it saps brain power too.  Individuals 
           have trouble picking between 2 Desktop Environs, 50 Window Managers, 100 editors,
           and 150 cd-burning programs.  This is why distributions are an important business -->

     
      <li>Lack of MS Exchange type application</li>
 
      <!-- Most desktop users want an office suite (OpenOffice), a web browser (Mozilla),
           a chat program (Gaim), some games, a media player (XMMS and MPlayer) and 
           an email client/personal information manager (Evolution).  Businesses want them
           to share a common backend (like Exchange).  OSS does not offer this yet,
           but with the funding of projects like Chandler this will change. -->
         
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