[Mageia-discuss] beta2 woes and no graphical root (tonyb)

Thu Apr 12 19:01:57 CEST 2012

2012/4/12 Renaud (Ron) Olgiati <renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org>:
+> On Thursday 12 Apr 2012 10:05 my mailbox was graced by a message from Rolf
+> Pedersen who wrote:
+>>  To sum, again, Linux is not merely a matter of an individual's choice.
+>
+> So you will impose your choices on a community,
+> because you know better than they do ?
+
+Yes. And as a member of this community in such a case I have not the
+slightest problem with that.
+1. I have no technical background, not on paper nor in reality. Ergo I
+am not qualified to do a risk assessment like the developers are able
+to do (and are doing it for me).
+2. I am one, the developpers of FOSS (even in a rather small group
+like at Mageia) are a swarm with a level of knowledge which is more
+than any non-technical user can achieve.
+3. If I had a technical skills to do such a valid risk assessment then
+I'd also be able to change everything those developpers did.
+
+So, nobody imposes anything on you or anybody else where it is not
+necessary.  This is Linux, you can change everything you don't like if
+you have the necessary skills. If you don't have the needed skills you
+are a valid object of the choice of the expert's measurements.
+
+Let me repeat a quote which matches the situation much better than a
+misplaced movie quote:
+"Only kids who know not (yet) complain about wearing a helmet when
+riding their bicycle."
+
+-- 
+wobo
+