Dear Shiv Kumar,
On 10/8/06, BombayNews bombaynews@hotmail.com wrote:
wonder why techies on this forum debating on taking linux to the people devote much time on the free/open source issue. Outside the rarefied world of coders working on linux this debate is completely meaningless.
Politics and Philosophy affects and shapes the technologies.
The wo/man on the street needs an OS that is stable, gets the work done without much ado and preferably free. Could linuxers focus on this?
Your description of the usability of an OS is already present in most modern distributions, namely - Ubuntu, Fedora Core, SuSE Linux, Knoppix etc. We as a community would like to know what is missing in the existing system so that can be added.
Getting such a hassle-free system on the desktops of people intending to migrate out of the Windows environment would be the clearest test for taking Linux to the masses.
This is pure exercise of eduction and training. Many on this list are already doing this as and when required. We keep on doing seminars/workshops to spread the awareness of availability of the completely usable system. :-D
Shiv Kumar
With regards,