[mdlug] An Idea inspired by....

[Aaron Kulkis]

Ron Blanchett wrote:
> I recently had an idea that was inspired by a few of the things that I have been reading
> over the last few months. The first of which was the paper by Eric Raymond & Rob Landley
> entitled "World Domination 201" [1], the second being a Blog post by Helios [2], and the
> third being a comment to Helios' blog post and its expanded ideas [3]. Keep in mind that my
> idea is not originally mine but is an expansion of someone else's idea.
> 
> My idea could help the FOSS community in many ways but the first of which I believe to be in
> advertising it biggest piece of software, Linux.  Before I get to my idea I would like to start with
> some background on the ideas presented by the three things that inspired my thinking.
> The first of which is Eric and Rob's paper WD201, in it I beieve that Eric and Rob are trying
> to point out to the FOSS community that they need to pick one battle and win it instead of trying
> to win an entire war all at one. The battle that they are referring to is Desktop Domination for Linux.
> And the overall 'war' (for lack of a better term) they refer to is the overall adoption of FOSF (free and open source formats).
> Helios further expands on this idea in his blog post by pointing out a few of the things that the user
> community can do to help win this battle and even examples of things that he is doing to help. A reader
> of this blog brings up the idea in a comment and is his own blog of creating a series of videos  to be posted
> to places like YouTube to help Linux gain desktop domination.


They've got it backwards... Free & Open file formats will have to
PRECEED Linux desktop domination (my mind boggles at the suggestion
of Linux becoming a dominant desktop in a world dominated by closed
file formats....)

By the way...please set your line length to something reasonable
(like in the range of 65-80 characters)... your 120 char wide
lines are ... well, annoying.