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.
posted by NS Srikanth at 8:15 PM
2 Comments:
You are right. Majority does not always have to be right. This is one negative aspect about democracy. But democracy is by far the best alternative we have. :)
I must say I do not completely agree:) T20 is just a change, and I think a very positive change (like one-day cricket when it came about in the 70s).
And this is not a question of what is right and wrong, this is simply a question of what the market wants. Having said that, what the market wants may not always be right, but in this case, I think this change is good.
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