Martin, On Wednesday 22 December 2004 08:56, Martin Deppe wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
Martin,
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 01:57, Martin Deppe wrote:
Well guys,
I think you really worry too much!
The HEART of Linux is neither SuSE nor any other commercial company/corporation but the open source society - so WE.
That is true, in essence, but as a practical matter, things might well be worse for many SuSE users were it to change substantially or, god forbid, go away.
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A good distribution is a great convenience for me, but for others its the difference between getting what you want and having to make do with a less ideal system.
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Yours Martin
Randall Schulz
Yes, I fully agree with you and I have to admit that I haven't much contributed to the open source community yet regarding programming, but started to try to help users and people to convert from M$ to Linux :-)
Programming is far from the only thing needed to support and sustain Linux and other open-source softwae. Clearly, documentation for much of the outstanding open-source software is less than ideal. Often, it's less than adequate. If you understand well a particular piece of software that is not well documented, you can contribute immensely by writing some documentation for it. Likewise, if you are competent in multiple languages, you could supply translations of existing documents. That can open up the audience for a given program considerably. Software that is extensible through things like scripting languages or templates can be promoted by sharing your own customizations. And, of course, helping people out on lists like this is nothing to sneeze at!
Anyways there is no need to worry since we will find a way to continue with this stream. Consider how it started and now we are muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch further, aren't we?
Linux is no longer a child. We don't need to worry about its mere survival, but we do need to care for it, nurture it (and its user community) and continue to support its maturation.
Yours Martin
Randall Schulz