"Bob Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:01:19 -0700:
> When was the last time that you personally submitted a *patch* for some > open source app/utility/driver? Matter of fact, altho I don't claim to do C or C++, I do do a bit of scripting, and have submitted several ebuild and initscripts patches this year. =8^) Of course, I'm not "most people" nor would I /want/ to be, but certainly, understanding scripting isn't /too/ hard, and most Gentoo users in any case should be able to do it and thus post patches at that level with little difficulty. Again tho, "most Gentoo users" do tend to still be a cut above "most Linux users", technical literacy wise. Still, bash scripting is something anyone that can decently manage his own system should be able to do if they choose to, and the fact that nearly all Linux systems use shell scripting for their init sequence demonstrably leaves them freer, more open to users, than the comparatively opaque boot process of many closed source systems out there. (I know, this is one thing I immediately appreciated about Linux when switching from MS, and taking apart and reassembling the Mandrake initscripts is how I actually learned my bash scripting.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
