Using Ubuntu absolves the user of personal responsibility?
cantormath
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Thu Aug 3 15:14:54 UTC 2006
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
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