Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1993 17:40:44 CET From: <K11111I@ALIJKU11.BITNET> Subject: Re: The best way to "support Linux"!
rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
>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!
>]xD{i]{{t({
Hey Boy, off course.
Microsoft: no mangers, no trainers, no financial experts, no strategists, no
support, no marketing, no lobby, just programmers?
Novell: no managers, no organisation, no custom service, just programming
freaks?
You are dreaming. A success of an OS is more then programming.
It also needs marketing, support, training, distribution...
>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"?#
I allready made a suggestion to this. See for K11111I.
ED :-D