"Dean Michael C. Berris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I meant tempted to say. What I'm saying here is that if it's the first > time you've ever gotten your hand at goind something in a CLI while > you've been used to doing close to everything in a GUI, then you'd be > more or less tempted to compare the experience of doing it in a CLI to > the experience of doing in a GUI. If you've been a GUI person forever, > you'd be more or less tempted to say "Hey, the CLI is SOOOO much > different from a GUI!" (seems obvious, but you'd be surprised it > happens: people stating the obvious. :))
Of course that happens; there's no dispute on that. What I'm referring to is the human quality (or curse) to resist change, that's all. And I think that's something we could do something on, or change, you know. > But I was talking about a mandate, not motivation. And IIRC, in "Just > for Fun (Biography of Linus Torvalds)", the Linux kernel was created out > of Linus' frustration on the performance of Minix in his 286 -- thus he > created a login shell/text editor/dialer application which dialed into a > PDP-11 at Univ. Helsinki on which he did his stuff. To cut the story > short, since Linus didn't like Minix and how he felt it was lacking, he > started working on Linux "Just for Fun" -- and everything else is > history. And, IIRC2, Linus didn't need to create Linux to graduate from > College and get his Masters degree. I'm painfully aware of that, and you're right, there is no mandate. However, there is that bit of motivation to learn and experience, which leads then to creation and improvement. That's something you rarely see in non-free software, when such tools provide the infrastructure necessary for that. And as for that history bit, thanks for clarifying it. But even as Linus did it `just for fun,' he still had that need to be met, and as you aptly put it, he scratched his itch. So, mandate or no mandate, its the motivation that drives people, not mandates, since mandates are like copyrights in the sense that they can be viewed as limitations to freedom; and people, regardless of race, color, or bubble gum flavor, have just the tendency to break such limitations. > And the initial developers that contributed to the development of Linux > "chose" to contribute. They weren't and still aren't mandated by anybody > to continue contributing to the development of Linux (the kernel). No dispute on that, either. Oh well! So much for the dizzying complexity of copyrights and stuff like that. Let's just leave those bits to the lawyers, shall we? and get back on track to just have fun with computing... -- ZAK B. ELEP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- <http://zakame.spunge.org> 1024D/FA53851D 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D -- Running Debian GNU+Linux testing/unstable. GnuPG signed mail preferred.
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