On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:47:24AM +0530, Bijoy wrote: > > Aggression is not at all an answer. First listen to the people around > you, if they don't have any benefit from your shout, it will end up in a > mess and finally every one involved will fail. You can say most of > hardware will be supported, like things to a techy person, probably he > will understand that. But the viewer for the expo would ask us 'x' is my > favorite game, I bought my computer to play this, do load this game on > linux. What will you say? Go and download, right?
I think this is a typical situation. 'x' will be his favourite game for short period say a couple of months and then it will be 'y'. Most probably 'x' and 'y' simulates killing of people, destruction of some thing or running a vehicle at a very high speed. The 'viewer' has the freedom to do so. On the other hand ther is a large number of people who buy computers for other purpose as well - to learn and develop (themselves and their children)- communicating with others, programming in computer languages etc etc. It is this group who will control the society in future. So this group whould be the target audiance. >I won't think that user will get every thing easily even after he got it, >he should configure his system at least for some sh libs. But for that the user > need some experience there, that he is not familiar in his OS. Some experience is required for operating any equipment including computers. If some one buy a computer some software - at least the operating system - is bundled along with the computer. It is taken for granted (by a majority of people) that these softwares comes along with the computer and is a part of it. If the buyer knows how to operate it he will start using it other wise he will ask somebody using a computer or join some institutions to learn how to operate a computer. He may not be aware of, or simply ignore, the fact that he is using an illegeal copy of the softwares. This can lead to severe problems for the society in future. For general purpose usage like browsing internet, sending and receiving mails, writing letters etc etc switching over to GNU/Linux is not at all a problem. I had a chance to teach C++ PLUS II (KERALA) students. I used the xwpe package as IDE. They do not find any difficulty in using Turboc3 in school and g++ (+) wpe here. They also used postgresql and are at ease. >Every one believed as a deciple of RMS will say always, did you ever see KDE? >D>id you ever see GNOME?, but actually that is not addressing the real > problem. No one will get impressed by seeing images, are you :-) RMS deciple will not (generally) use GUI, emacs is their operating system. > Finally don't think GNU/linux is an alian thing that every one > is not familer with. All around us are aware of it and its growth, but > stay away because of this like number of issues. > What I mean is go for the expo with good games, good multimedia > and keep every thing simple. "good games" - we should identify them well before the expo. Any body tried 'blender' or any other such programmes? >Finally don't make the users the slaves of > experts. They will not be happy to surrender their freedom to fabricated > 'experts' rather than monopolies. That is a wrong statement. No body is willing to surrender. With regards M.Balakrishna Pillai
