Dear friend Suraj,

We live in a world that moves at a very fast pace. In today's world, people value quality over price in most of the situations. And yes cost of ownership does matter, but never at the price of quality.

Now, we are evangalists supporting the same movement. A movement that brings people and ideas togather to create free software. It intends to realize the vision of a genius called Richard Stallman.

but friend, I have some questions for you.

Do Richard Stallman and GNU ask us not to praise and be aware of what is happening in the properietary world ?

Are we hampered by any force to write software as good as the properietary world ?

when we can accompilsh extremely tech. stuff, does it take a herculian effort to beautify it and simplify the names of the software?

Should we ignore the fact that the world leaders should be keenly observed and there success researched to pick up some good things that might help us create FSF into a more formidable force ?

My previous posting was to help all our friends realize that we can improve. We can innovate. We can be the best and WE CAN be FREE. We can be technical yet touch the masses.

------------------- by Mr. Suraj -------------------------------------- your question is like, "Do the masses need a hut where they live happily or do they need the latest technology laser enabled cage where they get electrocuted?" We in the Free Software world donot care if our existing software cannot do everything that proprietary guys do. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- REPLY: Friend we have to care and improve. Thats how future is driven. We dont want to be philosophers in minority. Awareness of competetion is the key to "NOT REINVENTING THE WHEEL" and "CREATING BETTER SOFTWARE"

WE NEED TO OBSERVE,ACT AND IMPROVE.

Now, friend suraj, you are very right when you say praising wont help. So, friends, i give you a head start.

We are already working on a project that integrates the "servers" that run on Linux, into services that can be controlled from one point and that minimises the administration. I invite all my friends to come and join me in the endeavor.

This is a small step towards "Scalable, Distributed Zero Administration Servers" ... We call the project as ZServers.

Friends, this project is the first in line ... We in pune are working in three different teams of 10 people each on some amazing software for linux. We indend to throw all the software to FSF one by one.

If any of my friends are interested to join hands ... Please mail me at: tarun.gaur@i3genesys.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Once Aki morito (Sony) was having a different opinion than his collegue. They had a heated disscussion. When Aki was asked about his reaction by another friend ... he said : If we agree to the same things, then one of us is redundant. We respect difference of opinion. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- leave you with this thought,

Tarun Gaur

From: Suraj Kumar suraj@symonds.net To: Tarun Gaur gaur_tarun@hotmail.com CC: fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in, fsf-discuss@mm.gnu.org.in Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Lets Introspect and watch competition ... Date: 24 Nov 2002 16:51:04 +0530

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DO YOU THINK WE (INTELLIGENT TECHIES) CAN REACH MASSES THIS WAY ? DO THE MASSES NEED "FREE SOFTWARE" OR "FREE GOOD AND EASY TO USE

SOFTWARE"

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your question is like, "Do the masses need a hut where they live happily or do they need the latest technology laser enabled cage where they get electrocuted?"

We in the Free Software world donot care if our existing software cannot do everything that proprietary guys do. Agreed, there may be a good number of bleeding edge stuff coming out from the proprietary world. All the bleeding edge becomes _their_ property. and its not something you can enhance. Infact there have been a lot of such "bleeding edge" stuff that donot let us even use it for any purpose. I have heard ppl from research labs like the ISRO say that they had to reinvent the wheel many a times just because an available proprietary software does not let them use it for space research. As a programmer, Proprietary software is _definitely_ not the best thing you can have. You can't modify it to fit your purpose (atleast without paying a hefty sum to the owner of the software). It is only something that you can keep "praising". do you really want to do nothing in your life better than praising something that does not give you the freedom?

We are here to build a better place. Information needs to be free and that will _not_ happen when its in the hands of people who talk about 'intellectual property'. Software will be useful in all the possible ways only when its free. And thats where we in the Free Software world give more powerful software to the masses than what the proprietary guys do.

Join hands, if at all you wanted to, we can write _good_ software. You see, the word "good" has two meanings. :)

-Suraj

+--------------------------------------------suraj@symonds.net---+ |I became conscious of the pangs of pallor in the absence | |of my lover, as we see darkness in the absence of light | |(pain of pallor and sallowness - 6), Thirukkural | +---http://symonds.net/~suraj/-----------------------------------+

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