On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:55 PM, habeeb z <[email protected]> wrote: > > I learned a lesson from this. I cannot make people long-term linux > users just showing them linux gui with compiz fusion and all, i have > to transfer the knowledge and give support. I always feel sorry coz i > could not do that. > > My point is, if we are committed to spread Linux and philosophy of > Free Software and want to encourage people to use Linux, we have to be > more supportive when people with limited or no knowledge of Linux come > up with questions. this support is to be given in the area where they > are interested. if a new user asks me "my linux box plays videos with > low quality. then what is the advantage of using linux over windows?" > i should not answer him "but your license allows you to modify and > redistribute your linux" or something in that level. > > sorry for this long mail and please correct me if i am at the wrong end. > -- > habib
well said. By discouraging "noobz" we're being selfish, aren't we? :) Don't we want to share this gift with everyone? Isn't that one of the fundamental ideas of free software? If we want to share properly, we should stop being rude towards "noobz". I doubt if anyone here was born with the entire Linux kernel code imprinted in his/her brain. Everyone was a newbie once. Anirudh -- Orbis Non Sufficit _______________________________________________ Mailinglist mailing list [email protected] http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org
