On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Saswata Banerjee & Associates spake thusly:
Interested people will get in no matter how many difficulties -- and I dont see these as difficulties at all. And I would rather have 10 interested people than 1000 idiots here.
With an attitude like that, Linux will remain a geek's OS and stay confined to the sidelines of comuting history. If you want to see Linux grow, it needs more users and support from users. That will not happen till you are willing to tollerate so called "1000 idiots" and help them become something more than just idiots, make them better users.
If you want only 10 interested people (here are actually talking of Technically Advanced people, not Interested per se), then you should make the ILUG a Techies Only group, dont bother to pretend that you are going to help new users move in and adapt to the OS.
That is *your* interpretation. Nowhere have I mentioned "Technically Advanced" etc. Interested is a simple english word. People who are genuinely interested in learning, knowing, exploring. May they be new or old.
I still say that such 10 people will add more wight to this list than 1000 idiots. Please note I was not talking about the whole world, but this list.
And yes this was a Hackers OS. And look where it has reached now. How many of the "1000 idiots" (who we have to tolerate) have added anything to it?
Millions of Normal people who are interested have made what it is.