From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) Subject: The best way to "support Linux"! Date: 21 Mar 1993 09:48:45 GMT
papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
>
>Fact 1:Many people want to support Linux, but don't know how.
>
>Fact 2:Other people are frustrated with a lack of organization in the Linux
> community.
[...]
>Opinions?
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me that the most logical
conclusion to be drawn from "Fact 1" and "Fact 2" is that these people
could contribute by *organizing* (archiving, packaging, distributing,
supporting, listing, meta-listing, ...) Linux!
THE BEST WAY TO SUPPORT LINUX IS TO CONTRIBUTE TO ITS DEVELOPMENT!
I'm not saying that Linus wouldn't like to see another half-dozen trinkets
surprise him in his mailbox, but "Linus" is not "Linux". Wouldn't you much
rather make a contribution that *all* the folks developing Linux could have?
Look at *me*. My skills in 'C' are limited to coding "C-ROBOTS" (a game like
core-wars, only with simulated robots running your code... and my 'bots will
beat your 'bots *any* day! Nyah! :-P ). So what have *I* done to "support
Linux"?
THE BEST WAY TO SUPPORT LINUX IS TO CONTRIBUTE TO ITS DEVELOPMENT!
I started the Linux Device List. Someone suggested that it would be a good
idea, others agreed, so I filled the gap. I've injected a little bit of order
into the Linux community at large. (Actually, the laws of thermodynamics say
that Entropy is never lost, so I must be dissipating it as heat from my CPU.)
In the process of contributing, you'll learn more about your favorite OS and
you'll almost certainly find other places where your skills are needed. My
next version of the Linux Device List will come complete with a new MAKEDEV
for example. A logical next step, chu ne? So I'll just say it once more:
THE BEST WAY TO SUPPORT LINUX IS TO CONTRIBUTE TO ITS DEVELOPMENT!
Rick Miller <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us> Ricxjo Muelisto
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