Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:29, Tom Brinkman wrote:
>    As to the 'convert windoze users', and get "linux on everybody's
> desktop' vein this thread has denigrated to.  WHO CARES?  Seriously, be
> more concerned that Linux continues to attract the people that built it
> to begin with ... the people all over the world that contribute to this
> free, open source, volunteer effort.  Without them, Linux is dead.

Tom,

You make an excellent point here. We seem to be forgetting the ones who built 
Linux into the great OS it is in favour of converting Windos users. I believe 
that both are important, but we must think of the former before we think of 
the latter, or Linux risks becoming another Windoze.

-- 
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
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