> At some point, people burn out or lose their drive. Or grow older. I started playing with Linux around 1995 - first distro I tried was "Monkey Linux" (ugh!)

> At some point, people burn out or lose their drive. Or grow older. I started playing with Linux around 1995 - first distro I tried was "Monkey Linux" (ugh!). Eventually moved on to Turbo Linux 2.0, then Redhat 4.2 (IIRC), then SuSE... Anyhow - maybe not since the beginning, but long enough. I was a lot younger then, and perhaps more idealistic than today. But I do agree with the OP that we need to return to our roots on this, and get that drive back. ...and I agree with you that it will be back. Maybe it should start with us first.