More blockers:
8. A course I'm taking uses Microsoft Word as for-edit document. For course
I've taken, I always ask the course staff to provide PDF for for-read
document.
9. Most universities in Mainland China uses modified and proprietary 802.1x
authentication protocol. The network equipment company also make their
clients proprietary. Some student hackers do reverse engineering and write
free clients. But the free clients may not always be available or maintained.
I forgot the references
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrms
2. http://www.macports.org/
My point is simple, freedom is meaningless if the users have to give up too
many things.
Many developer out there won't care a kind of OS with minor user base. So I
think making GNU/Linux more popular is very important. Hype won't work. I
figured out several ways.
1. Try to improve wine. A friend of mine is actively reporting bugs for wine.
2. Try to eliminate software blockers. I already did something.
3. For binary driver. I have mixed feeling.
3.1 What would you think if NVIDIA stop maintaining their binary driver at
all?
3.2 Installing binary drivers for Linux is non-trivial but for Windoze is
trivial. I cannot blame on both sides but it is a blocker.
3.3 Maybe not buying these hardware is an contribution, do you, free people,
have a decent website for that?
4. Try to promote LibreOffice, GIMP and so on first. Microsoft Office related
issues is just annoying.
For those who Free OS already work perfectly for you. I'm quite happy about
that! But there are many problems pending. I hope you can help!
