ltsp local apps + nat + ....

[Jordan Erickson]

Scott Balneaves wrote:
*snip*
> Also extremely frustrating for a developer who has 84 pages of LTSP
> documentation who keeps asking for someone to help him package it, but keeps
> only hearing the "sounds of silence".
>
> To be expected, however.  I'm beginning to beleive that Free Software itself is
> an unworkable concept.  When I started getting involved (back in 1985 or so),
> there was a tacit understanding that I was here to solve my problems, and *you*
> were here to solve *your* problems, and wouldn't it be *cool* if we both worked
> *together*, and hey look at what we did!
>
> Now, the vast majority of people feel that filing a 1 line bug report ("IT DONT
> WORK WHY WONT YOU GUZ FIX IT LOL!!!111one") is the limit of their need for
> involvement.  After all, it's *somebody else's* job to make all this stuff
> work, right?
>   

There is still a lot of confusion as to how FOSS works compared to 
commercially developed software, I think. Personally, and not to go on a 
rant of my own, but the term is very confusing to those not already 
enlightened as to its meaning. "Free software"... I like the term 
"Community developed software".

At any rate, I think the more popular FOSS gets, the more people will 
understand the concept. Everyone is still so conditioned to commercial 
software they pay for and just expect to work without issue, and pretty 
GUIs for everything (not that it does, but at least they can point a 
finger and say they paid for it, it better work!). If people truly 
understood how this stuff is made and improved, they wouldn't be so 
rude/ignorant when it came to figuring something out (well, maybe *most* 
of them wouldn't...). Maybe we need to take a full page out in the major 
newspapers like Mozilla did and explain how this stuff works. ;) I bet 
we'd at least get a bunch more devs hop on board!


Cheers,
Jordan