“Idiot!” was one of my father’s favourite expressions. He used it a lot in city-traffic. He was a bus driver and saw a lot of stupid things. He had driven a bus in the city for 25 years without an accident when a guy drove through a red light at high speed and moved his bus to the other side of the road. Minutes before, he had unloaded a bunch of school kids standing in the aisle. I learned a lot from him.

I guess the term is overused. Clearly the trolls deliberately holding forth an irrational view in order to provoke reasonable persons are not idiots but psychopaths. There is a difference although one may be more damaging than another.

Of course not, but it makes me feel better. After all, I cannot grab them by the throat and choke them as oldman says.

Actually, many of the trolls and naysayers who come her are not idiots but clever liars/word-twisters. They put words in others mouths, repeat FUD/myths about FLOSS and generally do their best to waste my time and energy. Fortunately, my enthusiasm remains good on some days and I continue.

The more desperate measures that appear in the trolls’ arguments the weaker their position and the stronger is FLOSS. FLOSS will do well with or without me. I use it and contribute what I can. Now that the major project of remodelling my old home is done, I will look forward to other projects this winter. I plan to build a greenhouse, go hunting and to finish the organization of my workshop and den, but I will also do somelthing related to FLOSS. I will add more to this blog and I will try some kind of install-fest or other publicity stunt for FLOSS locally.

Thanks for visiting.

I have been reading Mrpogson comments on and off for a few years. I came to it via Techrights (BN). I realise that dealing with some of the people who post here must be very frustrating but you do FLOSS no good by frequently calling them idiots.

Too late, GNU/Linux is taking over…

The government of Kenya has done a lot to facilitate IT in Kenya like promotion of wireless. FLOSS works for them.

The problem has not gone away. Its only gone away for you because your wage is worth something. In a lot of the world a full blow X86 computer compared to their wages is still like going out and buying a full Minicomputer when you got your first PC.

x86 hardware is not that cheep.

Oldman in entry level computers compared to global wages there is bugger all. Just because you live in a richer country and don’t see the poor that does not mean they don’t exist.

–So the poor of the world get to use developed world crap toys instead of usable systems.–

Be truthful is this not what you used in the early PC’s because you could not afford a full blown Mini-Computer at home. Reality here take your rose colour glasses off and consider what you really did. Please stop this do as say not as I did point of view.

You have talked about the reason why you used the early PC’s I could pull that up. Then I can pull the USA wages at time for price of machine vs average wages then pull global average wages of today.

The result is the current day machine need to land to be equal to the first PC you acquired for approx 150 USD. That is with Keyboard Mouse and Monitor. To be equal cost to when you got the PC.

I don’t know how you get to 150 USD at current pricing of stuff but that is the price. The raspberry PI is in their acquirable price range.

Reality the x86 PC is too expense for a lot of markets.

Kenya recently passed mandatory open source usage inside it government for particular roles.

http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Developers+lined+up+for+huge+gains+in+software+shift/-/1248928/1497380/-/item/0/-/webbqlz/-/index.html

Oldman Microsoft of course is in Kenya because if this works its another lost market.

Oldman really how many more markets can MS lose before it has to show.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….

Guess who is in Kenya.

http://www.microsoft.com/worldwide/phone/contact.aspx?country=Kenya

The only buswah around here robert pogson is YOU, who has let his hatred of one company destroy his scientific objectivity.

Many in the emerging markets are acquiring IT so they can raise their national economies out of poverty instead of making M$ richer still. Really, oldman, do you think Kenya should be subsidizing Ballmer’s lifestyle? No! Kenya and many other countries are modernizing IT and skipping all of M$’s bullshit cripple-ware.

So the poor of the world get to use developed world crap toys instead of usable systems. How nice of you, Pog to want to take advantage of their poverty to advance your anti-microsoft agenda!

Too bad those same people are also probably more worried about keeping body and soul together than they are about some idiotic computer.