IPL T20 and GNU/Linux - My thoughts
IPL T20 Cricket tournament is halfway through the initial rounds. After seeing the initial matches, me , a die hard Test Cricket Votary, is convinced that this will kill Test Cricket. Test cricket is what constitutes cricket and all its strengths. T20 is not cricket , probably an attempt to warp cricket into a soccer-ized mould to package it to delirious public. And this has proven that whatever majority wants need not be right. Maybe this is blasphemous to say in a democratic set up, but still what goes by majority need not always be right. After all majority of people chose Hitler.
Or should I rephrase this: Whatever ordained by majority , the most poular , or the most voted need not be right.
In the same way, MS products might be used by 95 % of people. MS Wallahs have cannily identified the market and gave products which will tax the user the minimum. If you concentrate on that, they knew that people will take anything. But GNU / Linux , you have to work, you have to read man pages, rely on yourself more and then the community. That is why it is not getting to be popular. Anyway a few rough edges are being mended by Ubuntu, but I think readers may get the point I am driving at.
Or should I rephrase this: Whatever ordained by majority , the most poular , or the most voted need not be right.
In the same way, MS products might be used by 95 % of people. MS Wallahs have cannily identified the market and gave products which will tax the user the minimum. If you concentrate on that, they knew that people will take anything. But GNU / Linux , you have to work, you have to read man pages, rely on yourself more and then the community. That is why it is not getting to be popular. Anyway a few rough edges are being mended by Ubuntu, but I think readers may get the point I am driving at.