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Socrates on sharing knowledge
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| I came across this text over at
| www.linuxformat.gr and it got me into a lot of
| thinking. I would like to thank NikolaosX1 for
| sharing the original post in Greek and Danae
| for the translation in English that follows.
|
| [...]
|
| After discovering this article I really wanted
| to write a post here expanding my thoughts on
| it and how they relate with Free Software. I
| decided to just express some initial points of
| concern I have instead, leaving it open for
| discussion. Hereâs whatâs troubling me:
|
| 1. In general I donât like taking words of
| great people out of context, nor misusing
| them just to make a point. I only use this
| quote here, with respective differences
| taken into consideration and respecting the
| analogy, to trigger a conversation. I
| already feel awkward, but I felt this was
| something worth sharing.
| 2. I am aware that FLOSS has other ârulesâ
| and âfreedomsâ to define itself and I have
| in mind that the quoted text is far from
| expressing the Free Software ideology.
| However I agree with the initial writer.
| For me, the idea behind Socratesâ words
| in a way demonstrates the substance of Free
| Software, and the âsharing knowledgeâ
| concept is one of the reasons that drove me
| into this community in the first place.
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http://www.mygnulinux.com/?p=556
How Hard Can it Be? DIY OCW
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| One of the miracles of free software is that
| it always begins with one or two people
| saying: âhey, how hard can it be?â The miracle
| is that they say that even when âitâ is an
| operating system like GNU, or a kernel like
| Linux, or a graphic image manipulation package
| like the GIMP. Despite the manifest
| impossibility of one person writing something
| that usually requires vast, hierarchical
| teams, and months of planning, they just start
| and the miracle continues: others join in and
| the thing grows until one day, with the help
| of a few hundred friends, they achieve that
| impossibility.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-hard-can-it-be-diy-ocw.html
Recent:
Confessions of a Linux newbie
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| The ability to apply different interfaces to the OS
| was a novel concept after years of the Windows
| monolith. KDE, Gnome, and Xfce are the most popular
| Linux graphical interfaces, most of which are based
| on the X Window System, but many hard-core Linux
| users stick with its command-line interface, which
| harkens back to DOS. Instead of taking whatever
| features Microsoft offers, Linux lets you mix and
| match components and functions to meet your needs
| and fit your style.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13880_3-9920995-68.html
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