Free Software is often technically robust as long as you use command-line interfaces, but very opaque and user-unfriendly when it comes to the rest of us. Could it be that there is still the need for a corporation that does for communities what Apple did for the single user? Not true. I would phrase it differently, still keeping the main idea: Free Software has started to become user-friendly only recently, but it is still not developer-friendly and the learning curve is a steep one. Or something along that line: we want things to be developer-friendly! -- LucasGonzalez

can you explain that thought - I always thought free software was developer-friendly - Franz

well, not so sure now! Openoffice is as friendly as Msoffice. Firefox is as friendly as Internetexplorer. Becoming a developer has always been difficult, and Free software has the "co-developing" side to it: it's not just about working on your own as a programmer. I think what I'd like to say is that we want users to become "co-developers", and isolated developers to become "connected developers". Not sure how things are now as scenarios are varied.

When you go here you see kind of progress: http://sourceforge.net/index.php "SourceForge.net is the world's largest Open Source software development web site, hosting more than 100,000 projects and over 1,000,000 registered users with a centralized resource for managing projects, issues, communications, and code. SourceForge.net has the largest repository of Open Source code and applications available on the Internet, and hosts more Open Source development products than any other site or network worldwide. SourceForge.net provides a wide variety of services to projects we host, and to the Open Source community."

Yeah, the more examples the better