> i dont think our main weakness is money. Our main weakness is that we > dont like to make waves, we want to be popular and friendly with > everyone, so we dont protest - we compromise and get trampled over. > The only way to face a bully is to stand up to him.
Not so. I think at-least 70% of FOSS hackers do what they do because they simply enjoy it. A large majority of improvements in any FOSS software is a result scratching-your-own-itch, not to make something easier for the "end-user". No question of "facing" any bully here when we aren't even competing with anyone. What this means is that, a lot of us don't really care if Linux has a major market share or not. We use it because we like it; and we don't really care whether the rest of the world uses it or not. Quoting Manoj from #linux-india "I don't want more users; I want more developers who can help me". If someone chooses to use Windows Vista; too bad. I don't want to waste my energy in trying to convince him not to. Just my 2 cents. -- Anant _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
