Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 11, 2003 07:01 PM
And this is where OSS fails?
- I dont expect mom and pop users to get involved in the opensource community. I would refer them to the distro makers (or opensource project directed towards this type of user) who are - after all - providing this specific service to mom-and-pop users. Their needs are so different from most of the opensource people that it would be best served by companies like Lindows, Redhat, SuSE etc.
Individual opensource contributors are trying to scratch their own itch in their spare time. I think its pretty presumptous to tell those individuals that "They have to fix this - have to fix that". No. They dont have to. I wont barge into your living room and demand that you fix my plumbing - please refrain from doing the equivalent to me while we have good "plumbers" in the market place (RH, Mandrake, Lindows etc.) You seem to think that everyone who's into Opensource should see it as their duty to "fight the big microsoft dragon". If you feel that this is worthwile to you then you're welcome to do it yourself. The rest of us just want the best solution to our own requirements - something that we believe Opensource is providing. You want to stay with your Windows boxen? - well go ahead! - I dont mind as thats clearly your choice to make, not mine as I couldn't care less about your choices of which software/platform to use.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 11, 2003 07:01 PM- I dont expect mom and pop users to get involved in the opensource community. I would refer them to the distro makers (or opensource project directed towards this type of user) who are - after all - providing this specific service to mom-and-pop users. Their needs are so different from most of the opensource people that it would be best served by companies like Lindows, Redhat, SuSE etc.
Individual opensource contributors are trying to scratch their own itch in their spare time. I think its pretty presumptous to tell those individuals that "They have to fix this - have to fix that". No. They dont have to. I wont barge into your living room and demand that you fix my plumbing - please refrain from doing the equivalent to me while we have good "plumbers" in the market place (RH, Mandrake, Lindows etc.)
You seem to think that everyone who's into Opensource should see it as their duty to "fight the big microsoft dragon". If you feel that this is worthwile to you then you're welcome to do it yourself. The rest of us just want the best solution to our own requirements - something that we believe Opensource is providing. You want to stay with your Windows boxen? - well go ahead! - I dont mind as thats clearly your choice to make, not mine as I couldn't care less about your choices of which software/platform to use.
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