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. --- Shabab Mustafa Liaison Person Ubuntu Bangladesh https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Shabab -- Ubuntu Bangladesh https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
