[Fsf-friends] :)

Tarun Gaur gaur_tarun@hotmail.com
Wed Apr 28 09:22:08 IST 2004


Hi Friends,

I understand and respect your confidence and am myself a staunch follower of 
FSF and open source. Infact the company where i am working is a live example 
where i have ensured that they have moved to linux rather than win 2003 and 
.NET.

But Dear Rishi and Anivar,

Let me give you a backgrounder. Mr. Ram Reddy is the editor at "The Hindu" 
and has been referred to me through another friend of ours at FSF. The 
reason I sent a copy of what he wrote about Linux is to initiate a debate 
and i am happy that we are discussing this further.
Now, he is a live example of an END USER PERSPECTIVE on Linux Desktops. Let 
me remind you I am not talking of Linux as a Server.

If you were at Microsoft or even IBM and giving statements like "I care a 
Damn on what Mr. Ram Reddy" thinks .... you know the result.

Now I have a question for you ... are "Diversity" and "Flexibility" synonyms 
of "Complexity" and "Non-Rich User Experience"??

No! You can be as flexible as you want and still be Flexible and diverse. 
And I am not decrying Linux, i know we are reaching there slowly but surely 
and we all know Microsoft is struggling to retain 2 million Windows NT base.

So, when the competetion picks up it is the BUYERS market and you have to be 
very agile to pick up a market share. And we have to behave very responsibly 
and look at the world from customer's perspective. We have a big 
resposibility here. Remember we are not a market leaders but intend to be. 
You like it or dislike it Microsoft is still there on 94% of wold's 
desktops. You know why .. because they dont ignore the suggestions of guys 
like Ram Reddy.

Please do not look at this as a Developer, try looking at it as a business 
man or an end user.

We have have done a lot to reach here, lets not assume that we are the best, 
lets plug each and every hole one by one ... cause thats the only way we can 
turn from a philosophical minority to MASS Majority.

Please do not take this note as personal, it is for every Linux Evangalist 
who thinks we are the best. If you still think so, please read the mail sent 
by Mr. Ram Reddy (and you can be sure that he is a responsible guy giving 
genuine opinion) once again.

Lets continue to improve, to end the note .. I am going to Mr. Ram Reddy's 
place this weekend and be sure we will win one more guy for FSF !!

Hail FSF,
regards,
tarun

>From: Rishi <rishi@gangfam.com>
>To: "Anivar Aravind" <anivar@linuxmail.org>,"Tarun Gaur" 
><gaur_tarun@hotmail.com>, fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in
>Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] I'll restore Linux and your confidence too !!
>Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:18:03 +0530
>
>On Tuesday 27 Apr 2004 9:25 pm, Anivar Aravind wrote:
> > "Tarun Gaur" said on Mon, 26 Apr 2004 07:42:56 +0000
> >
> > > I am sure i will be able to restore your confidence in Linux and open
> > > source. On our front we will make every effort to ensure that the 
>Linux
> > > is made easy for the end users.
> >
> > i have enough confidence on linux kernel. if u want to restore anyones
> > confidence plz send personal mails to them. i dont want any mail in the
> > class "opensource" through free software foundations list.
>
>Hi Anivar,
>
>I guess Tarun was just trying to get us to help Mr. Reddy. Maybe we could 
>be a
>little helpful... what say?
>
> > Is FSF is alotted FSF friends list as Tarun Gaur's personal mail box?
> > then rename it as gaur's-friends and unsubsribe me from it
>
>Just some thoughts on how to re-phrase the sentence above to achieve the 
>same
>goal but with a more gentle approach. ;-)
>
>========================================================
>Hi Tarun,
>
>In future, could you forward the e-mail to the FSF list requesting for
>assistance in helping you with getting Mr. Reddy to stay motivated with 
>using
>free software, instead of BCC the fsf-friends list?
>========================================================
>
>Regards
>
>Rishi
>

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