On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 10:29 AM, Magnus wrote:
I know with Windows we weren't empowered to do much more than b*tch when we were handed changes that we didn't like. This is Open Source. Each and every one of us is empowered to fix things we don't like.
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In a response that has nothing to do Novell/Suse et al but just with some ideas that have been forming in my head about Open Source, I recently came to the conclusion that Open Source only empowers those who have the technical knowledge to make changes. For anyone who isn't a programmer or a sysadmin, they are as powerless and unable to make changes as they were with Microsoft. It only gets worse when you have a situation where there are people who know how to fix things but don't have the technical knowledge to do so, and there are people with the technical know-how to make the fixes but who don't think there is a problem and will in no way listen to the first group of people.
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Sorry for the off-topic rant; just had to get that off my chest.
--Ilan
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