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| DATE | 2003-05-27 |
| FROM | Marco Scoffier
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Big Business & World Perceptions - Linux on the Des ktop
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On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 04:49:47PM +0100, Inker, Evan wrote:
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> So, in essence it makes you a 'software whore' no better than Bill Gates.
> While you should definitely make $$$ on your sweat and effort and I agree
> showing Free Software in its 'true best light', but 'lying, cheating, and
> generally being a scum-bag' are not characteristics I would want
> associated with Free Software....
Well lying cheating and being a scumbag has done nothing to dampen most
of the most powerful companies anywhere.
There is no point being 'better than bill' and living in the gutter.
Microsoft has sold virus prone unstable junk for years marketed as the
most innovative, and most 'must have' product ever to have existed.
If we don't push free software as the most important 'must have' product
today _NOW_ . We will never ever have a significant number of end users
and we will always be at the mercy of bill and co.
'Not ready for the desktop', is like the car salesman saying his car is
'not ready for the highway' or 'not ready for the open road'.
The sale is killed before it ever started.
Everyone who uses free software primarily has a point when they stop
caring about playing catch-up. I know what I need to do with my computer
and how I can do it sustainably and efficiently using free software. I
want to help others to get to that point.
Doesn't do 'blah blah blah' I don't care I can do 'wizz bang whoopee'.
Is an arguement which runs around in circles.
In my opinion the greatest enemy to free software are the 'experts' who
have 'dabled in it'. Installed a server at work, say , but use windows
at home.
'Oh _I_ can do it (use free software)', they say.
'But _I_'m an expert', they think.
'Free software is not ready for the desktop', they say.
'You are a dandy, and a dabler. You do nothing by conviction. You
treat the world like a stream of junk on the other end of your remote,
try this zap to that, lets see what's going on over here. You are
incapable of recognizing the difference between a fine hand cooked meal
an a microwaved pile of grease. You are the greatest enemy to free
software.'
Michael and Ruben and I are right to challenge you.
Get off your ass do something good for the world.
--
Marco
PS The 'you' in the diatribe is not 'Evan Inker' for whom I have
respect, but the 'expert' discussed above.
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