Interestingly I and few others did not receive the mails of PLUG meet announcement. If others have not recieved the same please notify about the same here. -- Dexter
On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Mayuresh <mayur...@acm.org> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 09:44:26PM +0530, shirish wrote: > > This was something that was being shared between Manjusha and me. What > I/We > > meant was that even today whether you look at 40 years old people or > early > > 20's youth they still do not know that something like FOSS exists. > > Nothing to do with age really. More to do with exposure and enthusiasm. > > > I have also been under the impression as most of us are that people know > > about FOSS generally but the truth is, it's only when you work in > companies > > which use FOSS then you come to know about it. > > Not really. There would be many on PLUG list who virtually educated their > employers about FOSS. > > > And for the 40 year olds, most of them have a stable job/life so they are > > not much enthusiastic to learn these 'new-fangled' ideas as I have been > > told/shared by people over time and in different workshops. > > Again nothing to do with age. > > FOSS is not that new. Several of 40+ (that includes the most celebrated > OSS developer in the world, no points for guessing) and even 60+ ( > considering the big R's age now, guess the big R of open source if you > don't know) and several lesser mortals who were early adopters on whose > effort we stand wherever we do today. > > [I do not know a suitable title for this thread. Request to modify the > subject suitably.] > > Mayuresh > _______________________________________________ > plug-mail mailing list > plug-mail@plug.org.in > http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail >
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