Using Ubuntu absolves the user of personal responsibility?

[cantormath]

Todd Slater;1333232 Wrote: 
> I read, with some sadness, the thread on mounting an ISO as a virtual

> cd-rom. It appears that pointing someone to a web search or man page

> is no longer considered a helpful response. Instead, we must reinvent

> the wheel any time a basic question--with more than sufficient

> documentation available--is asked. However, I don't think that the

> whole Ubuntu humanity thing should be about spoon feeding, but rather

> developing competent, self-efficacious users.

> 

> When we absolve people of personal responsibility, we often create a

> situation of dependence.  As shining examples of this, we might look

> at the "health" care, social welfare, and educational systems of the

> United States.

> 

> The notion that it's not acceptable to help people to help themselves

> is really ironic when you consider the African roots of Ubuntu.

> 

> My $0.02.

> 

> Todd

> 

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_Only_my_opinion_

That use to be the case, and I see the value in pointing someone to a
man to figure something out.  However,  ubuntu is trying to draw the
crowds who dont read mans and grandmas and children, not just the l33t
crowds of linux/unix users.  If people what to be l33t per say, they
got to learn to read a man, but if my grandma what her email, I dont
want her having to open terminal to learn how.


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cantormath