On Wednesday 02 February 2005 22:14, Anshuman Dasgupta wrote:
The FOSS community is about independence and effort to understand and excell in computing.
While that might be one reason to use FOSS, it's a bit assumptive to think that it's the only reason. Over several years, I've seen open source software being used for different purposes and freedom from closed source solutions was not a factor in many of these setups.
The primary purpose of Free and Open Source Software is Freedom. Utility, performance, world domination etc. are beneficial spinoffs. If the user does not value his most important asset (or his most important asset is not his freedom) than that is his problem.
I am not exactly sure what you mean by "excel in computing."
understand how best to make the binary beast work and create great apps and systems by reusing what others have done before you.
While I understand the importance of looking up documentation, I also find the "go do your homework" attitude to be more than a little patronizing.
Oh really. Presuming that the list members are sitting on their butts to answer the same question a hundred times is very "thoughtful".
On a different note, this is my first posting on the mailing list. It's nice to discover a vibrant LUG in Mumbai.
welcome to the real world. And do reply to those newbies being patronized so badly.
rgds jtd