@Wanjau,

Look at this way. All these Open Source people are basically marketing to you. They are trying to sell your an idea so that their vested interests and so called coverage can increase. Now am going to further challenge you, consider this :

Open Source Operating Systems :

- They will teach you nothing

- They will teach you shorcuts

- They will create a brain-dead syndrome, as is so typical

- They will not further improve your knowledge

- Whenever you have problems, they will refer you to Google

- When the next releases happen, things will not work properly

- They will kill your creative side

- You will not be able to use hardware when its released

In comparison, please ask the Open Source users in KE to list to you the achievements done locally on Open Source Operating System. Besides the FREENESS, there are no other benefits IMHO.

Moving to Open Source e.g Django:

- The world of creativity is at your doorstep

- Each Year KICTB gives you the chance to take your ideas to the next level. Funding

- You don't need to buy databases

- You are the master of your destiny.

- You will probably become the next president and take poverty and lack of funding into low overheads development sector, thus enable millions to change their lives.

I want you to do the right thing, take the Open Source factor and do something with it. Not use it as a mal-functioning typewriter.

Rgds.

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:28 AM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:

@Wanjau,

I'm glad you did not take any offence to my comments :-)

On the other hand no one on this list is even telling you the truth. If I were you, I'd pass on the Operating Systems silly-ness na utoto and do something better with your valuable time, brilliant mind and energy. Operating Systems will take you no where. @Martin had suggested the Django framework, move in this direction and Open Source will give you its benefits.

Rgds. :-)