On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 01:23:53PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The only other alternatives I see is to either live and arrange oneself with broken or non-existent drivers and stop complaining. or switch to Windows or any other purely commercial OS.
Well, plain users can only complain >:-P
My point is that it is not completely true to assume that plain users can take over maintenance or developing. We can't. I know I can't, even tough I said that once I did programming for a living.
(The learning curve is too steep as to be discouraging...)
No, I don't think so. There is always an area where one can get into. You don't have to be able to overlook all technologies in the entire product. Nobody does - I certainly don't. Most people who got involved in free software because they had a scratch to itch. Something that bothered them so much that they had to do something about it. So either there is nothing that pesters people enough to become involved themselves or ranting has been such a successful strategy that they did not have to bother. I don't expect this to be true forever. Carlos, this is not against you, and I certainly don't expect everybody who uses free software to also contribute. But the notion 'it is too difficult anyway' is something that keep people from even trying. Cheers, Egbert. -- Egbert Eich (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH X Window System Development Tel: +49 911-740 53 0 http://www.suse.de ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org