I think the "fuss" lately is the ease with which people can clone existing proprietary programs and make them open-source using basically the same UI everyone is already familiar with.
A huge barrier to entry for getting people to switch platforms is that they're set in their ways and like their UIs exactly how they're used to seeing them.
A huge barrier to entry for getting people to switch platforms is that they're set in their ways and like their UIs exactly how they're used to seeing them.