[Typo3] Typo3 and Linux (and "philosophical" problems with typo3 adoption)

[seml at symbulos.com]

Dear friend,

I think I was really trying to express a more general 
discomfort with the fact that the whole of typo3 support 
websites seem to be geared towards people using proprietary 
technology, in particular MS Windows and MS Internet 
Explorer.

This issue is slowing down adoption of typo3 in our company 
(and at our customers sites), and possibly stopping it 
altogether. 

We are indeed strongly conviced on the use of OS, which we 
tend to use whenever possible both on server and desktop 
side, marketing it also to our customers. So to see that 
the recommended client is Internet Explorer 5+ on Windows 
(seehttp://typo3.org/download/system-requirements/ ) or 
that some of the features do not work if you do not have MS 
Internet Explorer (RTE?), that the Getting started is 
geared to Windows user, gives us a pretty creepy feeling. 
unless the documentation is out of date.

I apologise, it is a constructive critique, because the 
products looks pretty powerful and features-rich, but this 
issue is particularly relevant. You can understand what we 
do at www.symbulos.com, so you understand why the fact of 
being OS geared is so relevant. I am not even saying that 
the documentation / presentation must be only OS geared, 
but that OS option and proprietary option should have the 
same weight.

I spent some time collecting information. I am trying to get 
some more information to take with me to the next 
shareholders meeting (next Monday), in order for the 
assembly to be able to make a decision whether adopt it or 
not. By the way, I am the managing director, but not a 
shareholder, so I can only convince the shareholders (but I 
have to be convinced myself before).

Thanks in advance.

Corrado

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