2007/5/30, Vihan Pandey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Sometimes it not so bad if you hold a child's hand while it is
> > learning to walk :-)
> I would love to do it myself rather than depending on someone else.
as i've said before there is life in the Universe other than techies.
In fact not respecting that life qualifies as a kind of Nazism that
only people of a certain conditioning can use a particular thing while
others can't.
This is one thing I keep hearing again and again - and it is not a bad
thing probably - people who could play the intermediate role - one
level above the end user and below the core developers (request
features, write documentation, help with localisation, ...) - want to
be just end users. The converse is equally true people who think of
only from a geek/power user perspective and ignore the need for
newbies/newbie friendly software. I just want to remind again that
there are roles that many could play other than just being the end
user - and we absolutely need those people if we want to achieve the
goal of making it newbie friendly.
My perspective is that we don't have to give up on our philosophy to
reach out to newbies - we could keep our beliefs firm and reach out to
the newbies - may be that path takes longer time (after all we already
spent more that 20 years). I absolutely respect your opinion if you
think otherwise - I just wanted to warn and think about it and be
careful that we have not reached our goal yet - a completely Free
Operating System - and if we lose it now - it might be tougher to get
back.
> Do you know why it was chucked out? the bitkeeper guys said, enough
> you can't use it any more. Here the case is different. Both guys are
> the same.
The case is kind of similar, if your doomsday theory regarding
Canonical is true then Ubuntu will be chucked out by many - law of
nature.
I did it already, and I just wanted to tell why I did it.
Cheers
Praveen
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