[TriLUG] Ubuntu stuff

[Dhruv Gami]

Dan wrote:
> Cristobal Palmer wrote:
>> Using a wiki established by the development community helps to improve 
>> ubuntu. If the user base turns to other sources for help rather than 
>> looking within the ubuntu community, it diminishes the quality of the 
>> distribution. It's not hard to see why.
>>
> 
> It might help the developers... but is ubuntu only that?  "If the user 
> community turns to other sources for help, rather than looking
> within, it diminishes the community..."  You actually say that?
> 
> That wiki solved a need that I had... something that the *true 
> developers* didn't solve.  I know where I place the thanks.

I agree with Dan. He has a right to share something he found 
interesting. Moreover, isn't the freedom to choose from different 
options the whole essence of open source? By discouraging other sources 
to exist, you're taking away a user's freedom to look elsewhere if she 
does not agree with the information available on one site.

I was truly surprised to see such a mindset existing in the Open Source 
community.

regards,
Gami