I am going to SHARE a comment posted on necopost.com by one of my reader who seem to be a Field Dependent Learner, which is OK.
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Anonymous12/24/2012 10:03:00 PM
Looks cool but the author, Mr. Salem R., misses the spirit of linux: sharing with others. If everyone, from Linus Torvalds to the creators of Gnome and all the great free linux software, just showed you the good stuff on Youtube but never really shared it with you, how would you feel, Mr. Salem R.? Maybe like many readers of your posts, waiting for months to get some meaningful how-to from you and getting nothing but some confusing mumbo-jumbo. What is the point of posting this, really? To show everyone how great you are? You may be great, but you are alone in the linux community and never really understood what linux is about.
I choose to reply to this comment on the front page in case someone else with similar misunderstanding opinion happen to exist.
Let me start by saying thank you for reading and commenting on my posts. Your comments are always welcome. Now, regarding your comment.
"If everyone, from Linus Torvalds to the creators of Gnome and all the great free linux software, just showed you the good stuff on Youtube but never really shared it with you, how would you feel, Mr. Salem R.?"
I would feel normal. Come to think of it, that exactly what happen with me. Those cool computer interface you keep seeing in those awesome science fiction movies, there are no how-to or actual working codes freely available to download for the public. I just saw them on my monitor just like you saw my YouTube videos. I got inspired, use my will to learn, understand and innovate. And end up making my own real cool working computer desktop, plus I learned a lot of new things in the process. It is a shame that you were unwilling to enjoy the same experience when presented with a similar situation.
"What is the point of posting this, really? To show everyone how great you are?"
All my "Cool Futuristic Desktop" are concepts. The best medium for SHARING them was YouTube. That's why they are uploaded to YouTube. the purpose was and still is to inspire and show the potential for future Linux Desktop design. So, the goals were fully met. I am just a simple innovative thinker. I am well aware of the capabilities of computers in our current time. So, as far as I am concern, I am still computer illiterate.
You accusing me of "missing the spirit of Linux". Well try writing your buddy Linus Torvalds at your "Linux Community" for an how to. You'll see how much "Spirit of Linux" he'll be willing to share with you.
Sure, I may be "alone in the Linux Community" as you tried to point out. But that is perfectly fine with me. Beside, I am a Field Independent Learner, I am more creative and learn better that way.
I am sorry to hear you have been "waiting for months" instead of trying to move forward with your own innovative design and learn a lots of cool stuff during the process. You do know it's actually possible to accomplish even if don't have some fancy computer coding, programming or design college degree. Technically, you have been waiting on yourself.
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ReplyDelete"All my "Cool Futuristic Desktop" are concepts. The best medium for SHARING them was YouTube."
Nope, they are working concepts. Best place for sharing them is github. Your stuff is interesting, so get the code out there so we all can play with it.
I saw your concept, and looked you up to see what you had done with it. The original guy and the guy above are completely missing the point. The "spirit of linux" is not some type of socialism of ideas, where if you use Linux and you build something cool, now everybody has a right to it. It [was originally] about people voluntarily coming together to make something awesome, and (again) voluntarily contributing it back to the community. Some of these volunteers have commercial software that they do not release as source, and thats ok. And you can bet that most of them have personal projects that they do not release the source for.
ReplyDeleteI am a big supporter of opensource, and there are many benefits to sharing your work someplace like sourceforge or github. But what I am not a supporter of is this mentality that you are obligated to do so. Keep doing what you're doing man, ignore the idiots.
I'm with this guy on sharing this through github, however I do understand that you share your concepts through YouTube with a link to your page here.
ReplyDeleteWhich reminds me; I came here because I saw your CFD concept and thought it was THE SHIT. And if not for the fact that my Ubuntu installation can't manage to keep itself together for more than 2 days which forces me to move to something other than Debian-based Linux, I'd love to use this. In fact, I might have to. Once I manage to figure out how to stop Mint from looping in the process of mounting as rw in recovery so I can install my NVidia driver and have my 1080p resolution back, but it's been giving more trouble than it's worth almost, and I'm nearly moving on to Fedora. My hardware doesn't really get along with Linux too well, but I've given up on Windows and really want to make the switch.
That went on much longer than I expected. Blame the vodka. Anyways I love the CFD project you've been going at and really hope to see some more stuff coming. Already bookmarked your page and will be checking in to see your next release.
Did I mention this post would be tl;dr? Woops. PEACE.
Wow. Somehow my comment got lost. Whatever it was tl;dr material.
ReplyDeleteI love what you're doing with this CFD project, and hope to see you continuing to improve upon it. Once I get Mint working with my NVidia GPU I will definitely be looking into it. Otherwise I'm moving to Fedora and I'm done with all the hassle that Debian-based releases have been giving me.
Hope to see some more soon!