Hi Friends,
I understand and respect your confidence and am myself a staunch follower of FSF and open source. Infact the company where i am working is a live example where i have ensured that they have moved to linux rather than win 2003 and .NET.
But Dear Rishi and Anivar,
Let me give you a backgrounder. Mr. Ram Reddy is the editor at "The Hindu" and has been referred to me through another friend of ours at FSF. The reason I sent a copy of what he wrote about Linux is to initiate a debate and i am happy that we are discussing this further. Now, he is a live example of an END USER PERSPECTIVE on Linux Desktops. Let me remind you I am not talking of Linux as a Server.
If you were at Microsoft or even IBM and giving statements like "I care a Damn on what Mr. Ram Reddy" thinks .... you know the result.
Now I have a question for you ... are "Diversity" and "Flexibility" synonyms of "Complexity" and "Non-Rich User Experience"??
No! You can be as flexible as you want and still be Flexible and diverse. And I am not decrying Linux, i know we are reaching there slowly but surely and we all know Microsoft is struggling to retain 2 million Windows NT base.
So, when the competetion picks up it is the BUYERS market and you have to be very agile to pick up a market share. And we have to behave very responsibly and look at the world from customer's perspective. We have a big resposibility here. Remember we are not a market leaders but intend to be. You like it or dislike it Microsoft is still there on 94% of wold's desktops. You know why .. because they dont ignore the suggestions of guys like Ram Reddy.
Please do not look at this as a Developer, try looking at it as a business man or an end user.
We have have done a lot to reach here, lets not assume that we are the best, lets plug each and every hole one by one ... cause thats the only way we can turn from a philosophical minority to MASS Majority.
Please do not take this note as personal, it is for every Linux Evangalist who thinks we are the best. If you still think so, please read the mail sent by Mr. Ram Reddy (and you can be sure that he is a responsible guy giving genuine opinion) once again.
Lets continue to improve, to end the note .. I am going to Mr. Ram Reddy's place this weekend and be sure we will win one more guy for FSF !!
Hail FSF, regards, tarun
From: Rishi rishi@gangfam.com To: "Anivar Aravind" anivar@linuxmail.org,"Tarun Gaur" gaur_tarun@hotmail.com, fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] I'll restore Linux and your confidence too !! Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:18:03 +0530
On Tuesday 27 Apr 2004 9:25 pm, Anivar Aravind wrote:
"Tarun Gaur" said on Mon, 26 Apr 2004 07:42:56 +0000
I am sure i will be able to restore your confidence in Linux and open source. On our front we will make every effort to ensure that the
Linux
is made easy for the end users.
i have enough confidence on linux kernel. if u want to restore anyones confidence plz send personal mails to them. i dont want any mail in the class "opensource" through free software foundations list.
Hi Anivar,
I guess Tarun was just trying to get us to help Mr. Reddy. Maybe we could be a little helpful... what say?
Is FSF is alotted FSF friends list as Tarun Gaur's personal mail box? then rename it as gaur's-friends and unsubsribe me from it
Just some thoughts on how to re-phrase the sentence above to achieve the same goal but with a more gentle approach. ;-)
======================================================== Hi Tarun,
In future, could you forward the e-mail to the FSF list requesting for assistance in helping you with getting Mr. Reddy to stay motivated with using free software, instead of BCC the fsf-friends list? ========================================================
Regards
Rishi
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