[Ubuntu-BD] আপনি কি মনে করেন? লিনাক্স কি আসলেই উন্ডোজের সমান সমান না?

[Shabab Mustafa]

Nasim Bhai has already covered very nicely all of the points I had to say.

One thing I have learned from my life is most people do like to listen to
'nice idiots' than 'rude smarts'. And I think it is an universal truth. If
you can't believe it, ask yourself, whom do you like most? A man with
outstanding organizing power, great leadership qualities, good strategies
and courage, named Adlof Hitler or a shabby Albanian woman who traveled
thousands of miles from home, lived her whole life in an orphanage with
orphans, which were not even of her color and she was idiot enough to
literally beg in the streets of Kolkata to fed those orphans, known as
Mother Teressa.

Hardware driver problems are long belonging problems with Linux based OS for
desktops. But what we most the "fanboys" do? The smartest thing we do is
just blame the vendors. They do not make Linux drivers. But how many of us
actively helped vendors to develop drivers for linux? Most of us are so
'free' and we reach them by shouting 'Why the hell you didn't make a driver
for linux?'. And that seems fairly logical to us. Because they are ruining
our 'freedom'! The immediate reply we got from vendors either 'no reply' or
'If you have any problem don't use our product'. And the vendors are always
villains. Just take a deep breath and think it again. Vendors are
businessmen. And in a super competitive marketplace the common and natural
response from vendor should be willing to add more support for their
products on what they invested their money. If they are not interested, I
think we should rethink about about our activities. Are we doing the right
things? We can convince hundreds of thousands of people worldwide with the
great idealism of FOSS and can't convince only some few hundreds of hardware
vendors?

Right now we have lots of FOSS advocates. It feels like every 5th person who
can use the computer more that basic operations is a FOSS advocate. But how
many FOSS developers did we get? If we truly believe on the philosophy of
'freedom' then why we need to depend on some group of people? Why not you
come forward and start learning how to build a driver or app for Linux and
develop something?

In my opinion, if someone come and ask about a limitation of Linux, when it
makes you angry, you are a 'Fanatic' and when it makes you think how can you
fix it or solve it, you are a 'Fan'.

BTW, a quick test for Free Software advocates! How many of you concerned
about this page even exists? (পড়ার কথা জিজ্ঞেস না হয় নাই বা করলাম)
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/

Thank you.

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Shabab Mustafa
Liaison Person
Ubuntu Bangladesh
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Shabab