Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 28th Dec 2006 17:50 UTC
Mark Shuttleworth writes: "We are a somewhat chaotic crowd, the software libre army. Thousands of projects (hundreds of thousands, if you consider Sourceforge as a reference point). Hundreds of thousands of contributing developers from virtually every country and timezone. We are a very loosely coupled bunch. But sometimes I wish it were easier to keep track of changes and have a slightly clearer view of progress across that whole galaxy." Eugenia agrees.
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To assist "regular users", a website which has been advertised and stickers on goods in stores should also help with getting more vendors to support open source.
When i purchase hardware, i usually look for stuff that i know works with Linux. So these hardware vendors which are "Linux friendly" get my business. Even if you are going to use the hardware on a Microsoft box, i'd urge you to purchase goods which you can also use on a Linux box as well. I'm sure over time this would start to level out the playing field, and send a message to hardware vendors.
The best thing we can do (and i agree with Mark's blog) is work together a lot closer than before. This will make the collection of projects into a better OS. For the power and regular users out there.