[Fsf-india] Four more questions...

Gopal.V gopalv82@yahoo.com
Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:37:49 +0530


If memory serves me right, Raju Mathur wrote:
> IMO just as we should laud Fred for his efforts in promoting the
> benefits of free software TODAY we should also laud the free software
> advocates (purists) for working towards that perfect future.  Please
> understand that your goals are not incompatible, only the time-frames
> and means used to achieve those goals may be different.  Please be
> sensitive to each others' points of view and needs and we can probably
> achieve much more than wasting our energy picking on each and every
> point that the other party brings up.

The point is that /Me and Pappu are talking from the developer PoV.
In reality the developer is aiming for the future. That's how the 
project survives -- without developers looking forward it is *DEAD*.
We see a project and not the product , and the aims and ambitions of
the project rather than the product attributes.

What Fred is speaking about is the User POV. He's right about what 
he's talking about -- users. The user looks only at what he gets and
judges the product attributes (cost,quality...). This is the main
difference that I was able to understand between our views.

Gopal.V
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