We should not reduce ourselves to beggars asking for food from outsiders. It is embarrassing and it gives our detractors an opportunity to meddle in our affairs. This year we should make sure we produce enough food.

God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests

It should be borne in mind that the challenges and constraints in most of our sectors are not related to lack of equipment alone but inefficiency, management incompetence and a sheer lack of commitment to the very job that is taking care of one's private needs such as food, school fees and daily living needs.

Not only do we want to reduce the fragmentation of Linux, but we also want to reduce the fragmentation of the standardization groups around Linux. So we're all trying to talk and find a way that we can all cooperate together and work towards one platform and one solution -- that's an ongoing effort.

This is what one of the founding fathers of sociology, Emile Durkheim, meant when he wrote in 1895 that the establishment of a sense of community is facilitated by a class of actors who carry a stigma and sense of stigmatization and are termed 'deviant.' Unity is provided to any collectivity by uniting against those who are seen as a common threat to the social order and morality of a group. Consequently, the stigma and the stigmatization of some persons demarcates a boundary that reinforces the conduct of conformists. Therefore, a collective sense of morality is achieved by the creation of stigma and stigmatization and deviance.

Beggars can't be choosers