[Ilugc] GNU/Linux primer
- From: parth.technofreak@xxxxxxxxx (Parthan SR)
- Date: Sun Sep 28 21:49:53 2008
Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, shirish wrote:
What do you guys think? Do you think I may have missed something? Do
you think something could have been put up in a better way?
The car analogy is useful for the USA where most people drive a car
I am not sure it works elsewhere as well.
I don't know what a really appropriate analogy is. Perhaps
food/recipes/restaurants or books/libraries/publishers
I used to use a simple household analogy - "We buy rava from the shop
and we can make a lot of things using it, for example upma or kesari.
The shopkeeper or the manufacturer of the rava doesn't inflict any
restriction on what to do with the rava. Think of a situation if he does
so, saying what you can do with the rava and what you can't do. To make
thing worse, think if he says that you can not share the upma or kesari
you make with your neighbours and friends. This might sound very stupid
but the same exists with software as well." But the problem with this
analogy is that you have to also bring down a justifiable relation
between the role rava plays in your life with the role a software plays
with your life. Actually you can live without rava in this world but not
without software. In fact software impacts our lives more seriously than
what rice or wheat or rava can do. Software, in this modern world,
controls our bank accounts, controls medical equipments which save our
lives, it is present in everything we use from calculator, to mobile
phone, to television, to refrigerator, to automobiles, to security
systems, and the list goes. Thus, who controls software we use has more
importance. Rather how much we control the software we use is important.
** I developer this analogy based on numerous times I heard Raman
speaking on this topic. Perhaps the later half is a bit revised version
of what he tells usually ;)
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Parthan "technofreak"
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