" because people in India loves the term "FREE" "
lol . when i use a general term like "everyone" to describe people in the forum knowing abt linux , i get bashed , but here all people in india loves free , so they know free software section is for linux ??? lol
I was told never to play with fire , now i got 2 for the price of one lol .
well like u said , most people spend time on technicality , instead of spreading the real word abt the OS . thats the problem with linux in a way . its not user friendly . i dont mean GUI , but the friendliness of the people who try to spread the word abt it . They seem to be in their own world . Heck i couldnt stand some of the people in chennai linux users groups , so left it . If the people who advocate opensoure/linux/gnu ........ dont try to understand others , theres gonna be a hard time spreading the word . Read an article once where a tech author was reviewing a linux distro and he pointed out that a new sound card worked gr8 on an old 95 system but failed on a new linux distro . he got a lot of hate mail ( and i thought MOST linux users were peace loving lol ) , one even suggested author should write his own device drivers , to which author said simply , why should he ???? .
u guys need to understand that just because its FREE and people love FREE , u cant force them to take it up or follow ur rules blindly . that would make u no different from the mega corps . So just be a bit more tolerant on people trying to make a switch .
One of the early FIREs stated that
"The term ``open source'' software is used by some people to mean more or less the same thing as free software. However, their criteria are somewhat lax; they accept some license restrictions that we consider too restrictive."
whats with the WE here ??? r u trying to make this thread only for OPEN SOURCE LINUX USERS and banish anyone who puts a licensed piece of software in the thread ? i think i had to accept a license once for using Java in pcqlin 2k4 , so does that mean that posts regarding pcqlin 2k4 will not be entertained here ?????? . Lemme make one think clear , For now , changing the name is gonna confuse a lot of people , and going into technicality on license and stuff is gonna cause more headache for people and they might never switch over to linux and might even go back to the empire .
remember what happened to aniken skywalker , inspite of being on the jedi's side in the first two episodes ?? he not only switches to the Dark side but also becomes one of its ruthless leaders . thats the last thing u want to happen to linux . I agree linux is a good piece of software and will benefit users , But try to change the way to bring out and present linux to the people .
its like asking an ukg student to learn hard core geometry . if u remember back in ur school days , do u remember fond memories of the teacher who explained stuff to u well and didnt force u at each mistake u made or u remember the scary teach who pointed out each and every mistake in ur writing or reading , without even allowing u to finish . Now tell me WHICH is the best way to teach people ??????????
If u look at linux , all are students of UKG in a sense and u guys weret appointed , but have taken ur time to volunteer to help spread linux . thats a good thing and appreciated . but u got to learn to be more careful with ur students .
To sum it all up : take things slowly , dont force too much on linux users at once . teaching anything is a long process , which will take time and mistakes bound to happen . u have to learn to tolerate too since u have knowingly or unknowingly taken the responsibilities of a teacher . except in the linux school u have a higher probability of drop outs . now we wouldnt want that now would we ???
LOL
Sorry about that 
