[Compcomm] A funny situation

[Mike Dransfield]

Franz Rogar wrote:
> 2007/6/18, RYX <ryx at ryxperience.com>:
>   
>> Imagine this "funny" situation:
>>
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>
> Imagine this other "funny" situation:
>
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>> A friend visits me and says: "Oh you have a nice desktop there and such
>> cool transparent windows. What is it that creates such nice compositing
>> effects and transparency?".
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>
> I answer him: "This is my compositing window manager. It's an open
> source project ;) You can take a look at opencompositing.org. What
> you're seeing is Compiz (the core) and some plugins made by the
> community called CompComm. Also, in the web page, you can find other
> interesting open source compositing applications as kiba-doc and
> screenlets."
>   
I think that is what RYX meant by easier to
just tell them to go there and dont ask questions.
> Note: I'm sure that a my friend doesn't know anything about
> compositing, if not he/she will know about Compiz, L3G, Metisse etc...
>
>   
>> He says: "Now that's cool - where can I get
>> it? At compiz.org?".
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>
> As I stayed clearly that they're "open source compositing"
> applications, he/she will look for them at "opencompositing.org". So,
> he/she will not ask that.
>   
If his friends are anything like some of mine, they will
look blankly and ask whats 'open source', then they would
ask whats 'compositing'.  After explaining what source
code was and how it could be open (free beer etc) and
then explaining what 'compositing' was I think they would
probably think twice before asking me anything again ;)

>   
>> He seems surprised and asks: "So I can go to opencompositing.org and
>> just download that compiz window manager?".
>>     
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> I answer hime: "Yes, but you'll get only the basic interface. As I
> stayed previosly, you can download the community plugins called
> CompComm".
>
>   
>> He is even more surprised and asks: "But why can't I just go to
>> compiz.org and download that compiz window manager and all those nice
>> effects and plugins and addons?".
>>
>>     
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> He/she will not ask this, unless he/she is idiot 'cause I've stated
> that "it's opensource".
>
> I add: "You can take support on opencompositing.org for both compiz
> and compcomm. Info about those proyects can be found also in
> opencompositing.org and, for more concrete info about Compiz, you can
> see "compiz.info" (not compiz.org)
>
>   
>> He says: "Ahh I see ...", while walks away confused and irritated.
>> Straightly back to his windows PC.
>>
>>     
>
> Are you thinking my friend is subnormal?
>   
Most of my friends are :D

I still know people who type urls into google, then click
the first response (which is normally a paid ad for a
spyware company)

I do explain, but he refuses to change.  Now I just laugh.

I tell them all that what they see is 'Linux' not compiz, not
a wow open source compositing window manager.

Just 'Linux' - If they ever get far enough to install Linux
then either I installed it for them or they are smart enough
to find compiz for themselves or Ill point them to compiz.org
for all the info (core, plugins, apps, dev mailing lists - the lot).
>   
>> This is what you all aim at.
>>
>>     
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> Don't get wrong: you must give accurate and structured info to friends
> if you want they stay with you.
>   
And not bore them to death with long explanations about
open source, compositing, forks etc etc.  Just tell them how
to make the cube rotate.  Thats all they care about ;)

They don't know or care that some plugins were written by
the community and some by David, they don't care what the
core is either.

>   
>> Rico
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>>     
>
> I think you still see the bottle middle-empty of water instead of middle-full.
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