[ale] What did we want?

[Charles Shapiro]

I dunno about that.  Maybe Linux just got good enough that a whole lot of
tech support isn't needed.  My brother now runs linux on his machines, and
while he is a power user he has no skill or interest in actually
programming.  He just finds Ubuntu easier and more secure than the
alternatives.

-- CHS



On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:

> On 1/28/14, 6:34 PM, Vernard Martin wrote:
>
>>
>> Summary: The attendance itself was a sign that ALE is on its last legs.
>> It doesn't matter what we want as obviously no one showed up to even state
>> what they wanted :)
>>
>>  Perhaps it's because Linux as a community-based alternative to big
> software vendor hegemony is on its last legs.  A Windows alternative with
> excellent hardware support and buy-it-and-turn-it-on convenience appeared
> in the form of a re-ascendant Apple, and most Linux usage was vacuumed up
> by a traditional for-pay model as presented by Red Hat.  If you have
> vendor-sourced classes and certification tests instead of self-assembling
> forums, IRC channels, and listservs, community is no longer all that
> important.
>
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