Reflections
Posted: Sep 10th, '11, 01:35Sowing the seeds, to be able to harvest, when these seeds had grown to a full-grown product, has been the natural way for all times.
Whenever the product was and is not ripe, harvesting was, or is of no use.
Building a house, to be able to suit the needs, won't be necessary, when it is not known, what it will be suiting for.
Furnishing that house, without knowing how this furniture should comfort you, is of no use.
Three basic points that can make just the difference. And three points many of us are easily being impressed by influences from parties, who think to know, or better, who want us to believe, they know, how we should act.
These days of revolutionary changes, and not in the least in the IT-area, we more and over seem to follow what is pushed between our jaws.
We hear from friends, colleagues and friends what is the best choice.
Whatever, about cars, about the choice of energy-company, about stocks and insurances, about our spiritual life, and for sure about our choices about computers and hence operating systems, everybody can give you the best of advices.
For me, i already stopped giving people any direction since many a year. I don't have a marketing-team as strong to influence, and far more haven't a supporting-team to help them out, whenever they are so clever, to follow my advices.
Yes, i did try for some couple of years, but have learned since.
Ooooh and aaaah when showing them about all the (free) possibilities in this world. But when it came to the first things, going different and not going automagical, most of them hooked off.
And yes, i tried this many times with the best of intentions.
In the end i found out, this seed can only grow, when it has been seeded by the person her/himself.
My first employer, boss of a supermarket, told me some 30 years ago, that mankind likes to be deceived.
In that they never trust things that are given for free. Free has something to do with inferior. It doesn't give you the feeling, of having something to defend yourself for your choice. Whatever crap you buy, where you put your good money into, gives you a right to offend against. That seems something necessary to use, in case you get into some argument with the rest of your family/friends/and whoever.
This mechanism is something very well known in the commercial world, and which is equally used, to set off products of inferior qualities.
So, and now bring back all those words of (self-proclaimed) wisdom. Where should bring this you, as reader in his forum?
Since 1995 i was introduced into the digital world. Yes, my first experiences are from from the DOS-period, in my case DOS 5.1.
It was only short after, that i got hands on DOS 6, with the ability to use a revolutionary function called "DoubleSpace", astonishing.
And very short after that, the first graphical wonders of Windows 3.1.
After that, well everybody knows.
In the early 2000's Mandrake came on my way, and ever since it became my main OS for private use.
Made some switches back and forth, but found out, going back to Windows, always gave me this locked-in-feeling.
And where are we now? And how to connect back to my first phrases?
Seeding those seeds, you remember? Waiting to it is filly grown to a product ripe to harvest?
What is it, we feel to have even more and better technologies?
I tell you, it is not you. It is this crazy-driven-commercial-driven-mad-world, that makes you believe, to be ahead, far more than what really is the truth.
For me, i am very happy, what Mageia 1 is able to run my laptop. Well yeah, i am not doing that much of spectacular things. Like to read my e-mail, surf around on the web. chat with some people, editing a picture (to make myself look like some kind of bird from paradise), ....etc.
But most and foreall to be sure to have some dedicated, stable, safe and freedom-of-choice operating system, that suits my needs.
And to be honest; yes i am a KDE-addict (for the marvelous product they have put together, since the transition to version 4).
But i will never ever want to push these great volunteers to the limit, to push them or any others, to make the pleasure greater than i even can imagine.
Concluding: we/you are amongst the very happy few still, to live aware of a revolution, which most of people are not aware of.
Of course it is good to be keen, on what is happening, but don't try to force borders.
It is all about people loving to share their free input, and awaiting constructive commentary.
But also remember, that all of this wouldn't be possible without the extensive input by all of the Mageia-team, in whatever graduations.
They all do it within their own amounts of free time and free thoughts.
Respect, enjoy or help.
isadora
Whenever the product was and is not ripe, harvesting was, or is of no use.
Building a house, to be able to suit the needs, won't be necessary, when it is not known, what it will be suiting for.
Furnishing that house, without knowing how this furniture should comfort you, is of no use.
Three basic points that can make just the difference. And three points many of us are easily being impressed by influences from parties, who think to know, or better, who want us to believe, they know, how we should act.
These days of revolutionary changes, and not in the least in the IT-area, we more and over seem to follow what is pushed between our jaws.
We hear from friends, colleagues and friends what is the best choice.
Whatever, about cars, about the choice of energy-company, about stocks and insurances, about our spiritual life, and for sure about our choices about computers and hence operating systems, everybody can give you the best of advices.
For me, i already stopped giving people any direction since many a year. I don't have a marketing-team as strong to influence, and far more haven't a supporting-team to help them out, whenever they are so clever, to follow my advices.
Yes, i did try for some couple of years, but have learned since.
Ooooh and aaaah when showing them about all the (free) possibilities in this world. But when it came to the first things, going different and not going automagical, most of them hooked off.
And yes, i tried this many times with the best of intentions.
In the end i found out, this seed can only grow, when it has been seeded by the person her/himself.
My first employer, boss of a supermarket, told me some 30 years ago, that mankind likes to be deceived.
In that they never trust things that are given for free. Free has something to do with inferior. It doesn't give you the feeling, of having something to defend yourself for your choice. Whatever crap you buy, where you put your good money into, gives you a right to offend against. That seems something necessary to use, in case you get into some argument with the rest of your family/friends/and whoever.
This mechanism is something very well known in the commercial world, and which is equally used, to set off products of inferior qualities.
So, and now bring back all those words of (self-proclaimed) wisdom. Where should bring this you, as reader in his forum?
Since 1995 i was introduced into the digital world. Yes, my first experiences are from from the DOS-period, in my case DOS 5.1.
It was only short after, that i got hands on DOS 6, with the ability to use a revolutionary function called "DoubleSpace", astonishing.
And very short after that, the first graphical wonders of Windows 3.1.
After that, well everybody knows.
In the early 2000's Mandrake came on my way, and ever since it became my main OS for private use.
Made some switches back and forth, but found out, going back to Windows, always gave me this locked-in-feeling.
And where are we now? And how to connect back to my first phrases?
Seeding those seeds, you remember? Waiting to it is filly grown to a product ripe to harvest?
What is it, we feel to have even more and better technologies?
I tell you, it is not you. It is this crazy-driven-commercial-driven-mad-world, that makes you believe, to be ahead, far more than what really is the truth.
For me, i am very happy, what Mageia 1 is able to run my laptop. Well yeah, i am not doing that much of spectacular things. Like to read my e-mail, surf around on the web. chat with some people, editing a picture (to make myself look like some kind of bird from paradise), ....etc.
But most and foreall to be sure to have some dedicated, stable, safe and freedom-of-choice operating system, that suits my needs.
And to be honest; yes i am a KDE-addict (for the marvelous product they have put together, since the transition to version 4).
But i will never ever want to push these great volunteers to the limit, to push them or any others, to make the pleasure greater than i even can imagine.
Concluding: we/you are amongst the very happy few still, to live aware of a revolution, which most of people are not aware of.
Of course it is good to be keen, on what is happening, but don't try to force borders.
It is all about people loving to share their free input, and awaiting constructive commentary.
But also remember, that all of this wouldn't be possible without the extensive input by all of the Mageia-team, in whatever graduations.
They all do it within their own amounts of free time and free thoughts.
Respect, enjoy or help.
isadora
). But I can participate in support and user relations, translating and discussing. I did that before I was contacted by Mandrake - and much more since then. I have not much money, so I pay back in the way I am able to. I often read posts like, "I would help but I'm a newbie and I don't have the skills to be a good help" - this is a lame excuse, I can't think of anybody who is able to run Linux but would not be of any help at all. /me thinks that we should even increase our communication with users to make them aware of the fact that even people like me can be of help.
