---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ashik salahudeen <aashiks at gmail.com> Date: 2011/2/27 Subject: [smc-discuss] Free Software ( sharing knowledge ) is in human nature - an example To: Discussion list of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing <discuss at lists.smc.org.in>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78514#c19 The above is a link to a bug fix sent to GNOME, the popular free software desktop. It shows why free software works, and why people work on it. an excerpt from the above link : "I would like to extend my thanks to the gnome team/community for a great last moment with my dad. Adrian Hands (my father) wrote the patch above to improve the usability of gnome for himself and others. You see my dad was suffering from ALS and his hands were so crippled he could no longer use a keyboard. Thus we used a Darci usb morse code keyboard emulator to help him type. Even the morse code device was a struggle as the sensitivity adjustment and positioning of the nice two paddled key would fall out of whack. I rigged up a pvc cage that wrapped around his knee and fixed remote switches to the cage so that he could use the remaining strength in his legs to operate the Darci morse code device. He used this last bit of body movement to write this patch." I am a programmer, and I use free software to earn a living. I do not know how people who do other things for a living will feel about this, but I feel deeply honored to use software created by a community in which people with so much passion contribute so selflessly. I think it shows why the idea of free software works, and will keep on working. Its in human nature. -- aashik -- aashik NotAQuote - Carmack _and_ Zawinski says sharing code is badass. I agree. _______________________________________________ Swathanthra Malayalam Computing discuss Mailing List Project: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/smc Web: http://smc.org.in | IRC : #smc-project @ freenode disc...@lists.smc.org.in http://lists.smc.org.in/listinfo.cgi/discuss-smc.org.in -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the rules: laws and constitution. _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List