[CS-FSLUG] Switching Your Better Half to Linux

[Nicholas Donato]

AMEN . . . preach it brother ;)

On 11/1/05, .mash <re.mash at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/1/05, Ritchie, Josiah S. <jritchie at bible.edu> wrote:
> <snip> She now occasionally chants "Gentoo, Gentoo, Gentoo" in
> my ear when the printer or the Internet are acting up.
>
> Sometimes I when I read comments like this my heart does a little jump,
> and a broad smile stretches across my face.
>
> Do you realize in 50 years from now, people are going to write about
> Linux and FOSS not as a technological marvel (yet which it also is,) but
> as an incredible social development. I do not recall EVER in my young life
> growing up, hearing about life and computers joining so closely.
> During the early OSes coming out on our PCs at home there was never a
> bond between man and computer to the extent that we are bringing it
> in so closely and more so in such respect as we have with Linux/FOSS.
> It is incredible to think that we all have taken this product and have
> lifted it up
> with so much love. Maybe I am being over the top but for a husband to encourage
> his spouse to use a type of operating system because he wants to share it
> because he feels it will be better for her and because he believes in
> it is, mind boggling. I would have never in a million years guessed
> that we would value
> software, technology to such a degree as to actually believe in it socially.
>
> I just pray that Linux and FOSS will always remain for the people and be created
> out of love for technology and community. If there can be something said
> for this technology that will stand the test of time it is that no
> matter how removed
> a computer system will be from being human it will and can always, if
> done correctly become part of and have a positive affect on our
> families and our children.
>
> I thank God that we have been given such a gift as FOSS it is an incredible
> example of Human initiative, social development and joyous creativity in a world
> so full of selfishness.
>
> 'Mash
>
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