Thanks for the post. And the explanation. I also understood the confusion but it was a bit late. I have made another post and shared it online. What I really wanted is to show that you can be mocked the same way you mock someone else.
I am sorry for what I've done. 2011/6/5 Nasimul Haque <nasim.ha...@gmail.com> > Masnun, I completely understand why you wrote this post. In my > opinion, it was also a necessary thing to do. I actually liked it, > honestly. But people have misunderstood the post from both sides, > windows and linux fans. You are also making this a bit confusing with > some of your latest comments here and in projanmo. > > Anyway, I am going to provide my view on why this post was required. I > am a complete non-windows user, I haven't used windows since 2005. My > first bought desktop was an G5 iMac, where you cannot install windows. > Before that the machines I used were running RedHat or Debian or > Ubuntu dual booted with windows. I am writing this from a macbook > which dual boots Ubuntu with OS X. I put this history just to make it > clear in which fence I live. > > There is always a tendency among fans to become a fanatic. This is > very wrong. Fanaticism is very bad for a thing to grow. Linux always > had this problem from the beginning. Only a very few handful of people > used it and they wanted to keep it to themselves. They believed that > it makes them an elite group in the society. Therefore newbies were > mocked to death. > > Ubuntu was born to change this fact. This is why it has the slogan > "Linux for Human". And to become a human-friendly entity requires a > lot of sacrifices and patience. If you take a look at ubuntuforums.org > you'll see how the same questions were answered over and over again > without any mocking a newbie. This is what makes Ubuntu a unique Linux > distribution. This is why Linux is becoming popular. > > At the moment, there is a possibility of getting this fanatic illness > inside the ubuntu community. I have heard a lot of stories about > people losing their data just because a linux fanatic told them to > wipe out windows. This is very very bad. No one should be approached > like that. People get completely wrong impressions about Linux > community when such things happen. > > So, we need to be careful about such incidents. We should never allow > fanaticism in the community. > > There is a wrong impression about Macs here too. Macs are not superior > anymore. It gives you an all-round performance just because it has > strict hardware-software integration. You can never use any kind of > hardware that are not specifically made for Mac. Therefore once you > are a Mac user, you have a very restricted options to use technology. > And that is controlled by a very evil company on earth called Apple. > > The point is when you want to use something, you better comply with > it. Not every single hardware is windows compatible. Not even Macs. To > install windows on a Mac you need Apple's help. In fact, to install > Ubuntu on a Mac you don't need Apple's help. Ubuntu runs pretty well > on Macs. > > Technically unices are much better than windows. This is a universal > truth. However, this is a geeky fact. It does not help end users. End > users do not want superior things. They want a thing to work. They > want cheaper hardware. They do not care about software. Actually, most > of the end users do not know that software requires a lot of money to > buy. They just expect it to be there. Hence the cheap manufacturers do > not worry about writing drivers for other systems than windows. These > cheap hardwares only get linux support only when an open source > enthusiast is notified about the issue. > > Although the post was funny and required, it did hurt the open-source > movement a little. I hope people will not be returning back to > proprietary software for such writings. > > -- > M. Nasimul Haque > Senior Developer > Appliansys > Coventry, UK > http://www.nasim.me.uk > > -- > Ubuntu Bangladesh > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd > -- ***Abu Ashraf Masnun | Web Application Engineer | http://masnun.com** * -- Ubuntu Bangladesh https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
