[Ilugc] Five crucial things outsiders do not understand about the Linux community
- From: masatran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Masatran, R. Deepak)
- Date: Fri May 25 09:39:09 2007
* Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@xxxxxxxxxx> 2007-05-24
On Wed, 23 May 2007 17:06:45 +0530 (IST), Prem Kurian Philip
<prem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
I think one of the things that the linux community does not understand
about ordinary users is that:
I think that people who write things like this have no clue
about what drives the Linux community. The lack of understanding of
what drives free software developers
Some proverb (I don't remember which one, someone who knows let me know)
says that rain benefits everyone on earth, irrespective of who they are.
Similarly, we want free software to benefit everybody, without requiring
them to understand software and hardware. Examples: five-to-ten year-old
kids, sixty-years-and-older people. This requires some effort on our part,
and the benefits are worth it.
Also, computers are becoming ubiquitous
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquitous_computing>, and we want those
computers to run free software. Otherwise, we will be forced to use
proprietary software. Replacing proprietary software is easier on desktop
computers, it is tougher on embedded systems.
--
Masatran, R. Deepak <
http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/>
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