Debian: contempt for "end user" values has to stop!"

[Donn]

On Saturday 22 August 2009 15:03:33 Liam Proven wrote:
> the developing world...Where is the proper, installable,
> upgradable distro for them?
It's the same reason, I surmise, for what I call "bandwidth arrogance": We 
have fast Internet, so therefore everyone else does too. 
Just look at email attachments: do you know it's impossible* to control the 
size of jpg files to an email? You can't get a nice resize wizard. You can't 
set clients to stop allowing attachments after X kilobytes. There's just no 
concept of email being too big. Why? Because of bandwidth arrogance. The 
countries that get code written have faster, better, newer computers and net 
connections -- so the software goes that way.

It's kind of inevitable too, so I don't think it will change. 

Here in South Africa there have been one or two distros that tried to take-off, 
but 1) the momentum of MS is just too great -- it's so much easier to pirate 
all that great software and 2) There is a virtual communications black-out due 
to the cartels and monopolies on Internet down here. We have *no* Internet, 
not a real one. There's no real blogging, no web apps, no divers forums, no 
inventions (beyond a handful), nothing is *happening*. It sucks so much. 
People down here have never heard of Ubuntu. They have no idea that MS and 
lock-in software is *even* an issue. It's like living in the middle ages 
sometimes.

* Sure, I can write something. I can find a way, but I sure as hell can't teach 
other people how to use bash and convert....
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