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LXer: Welcoming Newcomers to Linux and FOSS, or, the Least You Can Do is Not Chase Noobs Away

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Carla Schroder
Nov 17, 2005

[ Thanks to Carla
Schroder
for this link. ]

“The Linux/Free/Open Source world is changing, and such is the
price of coming closer to ‘world domination.’ The more people turn
to FOSS, the more diverse the user- and developer-base is going to
be.

“This, like all great grassroots movements, mixes the bitter
with the sweet. It’s like when the Wrong People discover your
favorite great, but not well-known, band. Suddenly all of these
uninformed trendwits are listening to it, clogging their shows,
talking at all the wrong times, saying all the wrong things, and
dancing when they should be listening reverently…”

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Story

CS

Carla Schroder

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