Re: Formal Member Registration

["T. N. Venkatesh" <tnv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Arun ... wrote 
>
>I contribute to an OS, not because of some "movement", but because 
>I like doing something and if it can help others, so be it. After 
>reading the Linux Journal survey of the first 100 people who contributed
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What has all this go to do with the Formal registration of Bangalore
LUG members ?  

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>While these people easily outnumber programmers among the linux users
>(note that notorious absence of the word community), you have to remember
>that programmers _created_ linux and are central to its success or failure.
>I'm not saying that other people are marginal or trivial to linux,
>but am saying that programmers are special.
>

Just as politicians, managers, cricketeers etc. are all special

>programmer to linux kernel engineer etc and am convinced of the lack of an
>economic model in the linux world for serious programmers. 
>
>And if you think again, it's a pretty serious issue, which is not addressed,
>often ignored and deliberately marginalized by other competing interests.
Maybe in the future, most people will write programs themselves and 
the "serious" programmers will switch to hardware level programming.

>
>To summarize, by all means, have an ILUG, have meetings, talk about
>Linux.
 
Thanks  :-)


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