[TriLUG] self-support alternatives to Novell/SUSE & RHEL

[Ilan Volow]

On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 10:29  AM, Magnus wrote:

>
> I know with Windows we weren't empowered to do much more than b*tch 
> when we were handed changes that we didn't like.  This is Open Source. 
>  Each and every one of us is empowered to fix things we don't like.
>

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In a response that has nothing to do Novell/Suse et al but just with 
some ideas that have been forming in my head about Open Source, I 
recently came to the conclusion that Open Source only empowers those 
who have the technical knowledge to make changes. For anyone who isn't 
a programmer or a sysadmin, they are as powerless and unable to make 
changes as they were with Microsoft. It only gets worse when you have a 
situation where there are people who know how to fix things but don't 
have the technical knowledge to do so, and there are people with the 
technical know-how to make the fixes but who don't think there is a 
problem and will in no way listen to the first group of people.
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Sorry for the off-topic rant; just had to get that off my chest.


--Ilan




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Ilan Volow
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