Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 10, 2004 01:27 AM
I have often wondered, after 20 years of existance, Free Software is still popular in very limited (read developer) circles. One reason I could think of is that the normal users *do not* need freedom of reading, changing and propogating the software. All they want is to use it. My grandmother does not want to look at Windows sources. It is *ME* who wants to look at it, because I am myself a developer and want to know the details about Windows, so that I can incorporate the knowledge gained into *MY* software. So, people conserned about FSF are *developers* or technical people.
So when we strip it down, FSF is about developers wanting to take a peek at what their competitors have wrote.
If FSF is really concerned about end-users, let them write software that is easy to use. Not easy to peek!
Yes, we love open source, but let's not kid overselves that it is for the end users (my grandma). It is for *US*.
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Why FSF is not popular for non developers
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 10, 2004 01:27 AMSo when we strip it down, FSF is about developers wanting to take a peek at what their competitors have wrote.
If FSF is really concerned about end-users, let them write software that is easy to use. Not easy to peek!
Yes, we love open source, but let's not kid overselves that it is for the end users (my grandma). It is for *US*.
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