Explaining Free Software - good examples

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Samstag, 26. August 2006 16:50 schrieb xdrudis:
> The audience may not be develeopers, but they may, to some extend mantain
> their own system, better or worse, larger or smaller, with more or less
> success. With propietary software it is really difficult (well, I don't
> really know, I don't do that, but I suspect it is).

A lot of proprietary software is easier to maintain and update
then Free Software, the reason is that the offers are more mainstream
and the vendors can put more efforts in writing and testing the instructions.

I hope that Free Software vendors change this picture soon,
but it would also require more people 
actually paying for a good update service.
For practical purposes, e.g. Debian's kernels are often not good enough,
to state some problem. Many update descriptions are hard to understand
for a non-computer scientist.

Debian and other distributors do a good job, I like them.
Still there is a lot to be improved and it does not do us any good
to claim Free Software would be easier to maintain for most users.

Bernhard