Celebrate Software Freedom Today

An anonymous reader writes "It's that time of the year again: when we all unite regardless of the (free) licenses we cherish and go out into the streets to let people know how Free Software has changed our lives. With over 425 events in 80+ countries, communities as diverse as Joomla!, FreeBSD and The OpenDisc, to name just a few, will be celebrating all over the world. Don't wait; grab your best arguments and join the wild masses of freedom lovers to the software freedom parties. Where will you be partying today?"

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Joomla sucks!

[Narcocide]

Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!

Re:My description of SFD

[hairyfeet]

Congrats, you are part of the whole 0.001% that use a CLI friend! Now be honest here, no fibbing....do you HONESTLY believe you will get the other 99.9% of the planet to do as YOU do, or do you think you will have better luck getting them to use your product (because that's what it is if you want ANY share, if you don't call it a hobbyist OS and just be happy with what you have) if you give them what THEY want?

I repeat, do you know what the definition of insanity is? its doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Where was Linux 4 years ago? 1% Where was it two years ago? 1%...guess where it'll be in two years if you stay on this path? Don't need Kojak to solve the case, the answer is 1%.

If you want to be a hobbyist OS? That is COMPLETELY fine, no worries, I'm happy for you. But you can't have your cake and eat it to, you can't say "Linux is ready for the desktop!" or "Linux is as good as Windows and OSX!" while relying so heavily on CLI because IT IS NOT EVEN CLOSE, its a lie. YOU know this, I know this, and the numbers don't lie friend. I can give you link after link of retailers dropping your product if you'd like.

So make the choice, step away from the bell bottoms and CLI and join the 21st century, or stop bullshitting and pretending Linux is usable for the masses when they will NEVER EVER NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY OR DO embrace CLI like its the damned force. they DO NOT CARE how powerful it is, they DO NOT CARE if you think it is easy, they DO NOT CARE if you think copypasta is the correct answer to a problem. you WILL do it their way or you WILL gain no share, its simple as that.

Choose now, because in 2014 millions of XP machines will go EOL and you COULD grab a good share of those, if only you'd change. the choice is yours, get busy growing or get busy dying I believe is the phrase.

Re:My description of SFD

[hairyfeet]

THANK YOU...you see? It is THAT, that total bullshit elitist with NO numbers to back it up attitude that dooms Linux to nowhere land. Did you know that Win9x/Win2K together equal MORE than your OS? Two completely abandoned Windows beats your latest and greatest?

But I hate to burst your bubble, but copypasta into a term doesn't give you magical gonad powers, nor will it make Angelina Jolie suddenly show up and be impressed by your "hacker" skillz. THERE IS A REASON why everyone abandoned CLI and it is because it is an unintuitive pita irritating little bitch.

As I said, and as was told and confirmed to me by a Linux admin with over a decade at his job and a half a dozen certs. you give both a Linux admin AND a Win admin a server task that NEITHER has ever done before and guess what? The win admin will win every single time because CLI is powerful IF AND ONLY IF you know EXACTLY what you need to do and the steps to accomplish it, period. All the CLI is is a giant game of Simon, where you memorize and parrot back.

But hey, you wanna be lower than even a crappy Java based phone OS? No skin off of me friend. when all those millions of boxes hit EOL all those shops like mine will just IGNORE YOUR OS and put Win 8 on the ones that will run it, and strip the rest. sure it'll be a massive pile of machines that COULD have been running Linux, but so what? you don't want any unwashed masses touching your precious bell bottomed OS, right? enjoy last place.