On Fri, 25 May 2007 19:49:45 +0530, Masatran, R Deepak
<masatran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
* Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@xxxxxxxxxx>
2007-05-24
On Fri, 25 May 2007 09:38:37 +0530, Masatran, R Deepak
<masatran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
we want free software to benefit everybody, without requiring them
to understand software and hardware.
If that floats your boat, go for it. There are lots of free software
people, like me, who are not interested in creating appliances, but
tools.
I consider free software as social service, and as
philanthropy. Government, university, and non-profit funding agencies
will want it that way. I was under the impression that the whole of
our community thought that way, too.
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.
And the benefits are?
The benefits are for the users, not for the developers. Perhaps we
should ask the funding agencies to pay the developers for such work?
Also, computers are becoming ubiquitous
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquitous_computing>, and we wantcomputers to run free software. Otherwise, we will be forced to use
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquitous_computing>those
proprietary software. Replacing proprietary software is easier on
desktop computers, it is tougher on embedded systems.
I find this a bit of a stretch.
The replacement Linux-es for Microsoft- and Symbian- based mobile
phones and PDA's have not yet reached production quality.