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Re: Why is linux not popular



On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:42:54PM +0300, Boris Gorelik wrote:
> 1. Until Linux is not  _TRULY_ layman friendly, it has no chance in the 
> 2. HEBREW
> 3. Developers (or: Microsoft conspiration)

I will not comment on the specific issues raised above. These
have been amply answered by the various posters before me.

What I will submit, instead, is a generla comment on the spirit
of your message and on what it represents.

Yousimply (indeed, state) that only pre-packaged goods are acceptible
to the general populance. You almost express a wish to be part of
that general populance.

Yes, Linux is not pre-packeged. It is not a TV dinner.  It is not 
pre-chewed and pre-digested for the simpletons. It is a tool, not
a pacifier. There are other tools out there, there are other pacifiers.
No one of us is a tool user the full 100% of the time. However,
a great many people are pacifier suckers a full 100% of their time.

When I want a pacifier (e.g. when I drive a car and it breaks
down) I call for one. It is my ethical choice. Likewise, anyone
using an OS and facing a set of complications may make a similar
ethical decision and forgo the "toolness" of Linux/VMS/MVS
or whatever. It is an acceptible ethical choice.

What is not acceptible is the wish and the desire to have everything in
a pre-digested format. It is an ethical fallacy.  You have an idea to
better your tool, put your code where you mouth is. Do not snivel.
Be proud of your tool.

This is your rifle,
This is your gun,
This is for shooting,
This is for fun.

Remember, the Great God Murphy loves. Murphy hu Akbar!


Yours truly,

The flagelator

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