Re: Re: Please share your linux experiences....

[Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <thaths@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Krishnan Venkatachalam proclaimed:
> Atul Chitnis wrote:
> > And I am speaking about Linux in India. The list cannot be an end in
> > itself, it must be part of something much larger, much more comprehensive
> > and compelling.
> Atul,  we need to get going on the point that "Maddog" mentioned during his
> stopover at Delhi that Linux needs a formal organisation in India. How well
> the organisation itself progresses, I guess only time will tell.

To these points I say "to each his / her own".  

Take Linus.  He is a great leader in working on a truly distributed effort
like the Linux kernel.  He enjoys this work.  It scratches his itch.  And
he tends to openly agree that he does not make a great spokesperson (even
though the media tends to use him as a boy wonder fighting Goliath) /
coordinator for Linux in general.  For this you need people like ESR and
Maddog.  Doing the PR work for Linux is something that scratches their
itch.

I see a similar situation in LI.  Different people have different itches. 
Some of us want to build a community.  And some of us just love the
disorganized nature of a mailing list.  I see places where friction could
exist between these two groups.  But as MLK said: "Can't we all get along
together".

Thaths
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