From: cc935@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gerrold T. Sithe) Subject: Re: The best way to "support Linux"! Date: 21 Mar 1993 19:10:04 GMT
I agree with Rick Miller when he says the best way to contribute to
Linux is to contribute to its development. A few other posts pointed out
the lack of organization, lack of integration, and so on. These are valid
points, but we are not SCO, inc. World acceptance of Linux is not our goal,
is it?
My understanding is that Linux was started as and continues to be a
hacker os, not an os with "production values." I'm a little afraid that if
people start caring less about development and more about packaging, Linux
will suffer the same fate as Microsoft products...more popular perhaps, but
internally bogus.
I started out knowing almost nothing about unix. I learned from Linux,
taught myself C, and now I contribute with testing, patches, and answeres on
c.o.l., because I feel I owe it to the project after all I've gained from it.
That is my way of paying back all the people who have worked so hard on Linux.