On Wednesday 01 October 2008 21:39:53 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > You are right. Ubuntu has not made my task easuier, or made > the lives of my users any easier. If anything, they are an obstacle > int he way of people using my code to communicate issues they find in > my code from getting to me, which is irksome. > > Since I do nto do free software for altruistic reasons, I do > not see the benefit really of getting more unwashed masses into > Linux. Really I don't. They do not seem to be lifting the forks to > feed the rest of us.
This was curious, so I dug around and read this: http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/india-irc.txt and seriously speaking, it was quite an eye opener. I have been trying to completely understand where you are coming from, and now I do. I am not sure though whether your views represent the rest of the Debian team. Unlike what some people think around here, my defense of Ubuntu has got less to do with my fascination about it, and more about my conviction that it currently provides one of the better Linux alternatives in the market for the masses. You have a very valid alternative of the world in mind and unlike me you have contributed a lot to that alternative, and I respect that. However, the masses don't figure in your utopia, but it does in mine. So I will close my end of the discussion at this point, because it is obvious that we can never reach a conclusion. - Sandip _______________________________________________ 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/
