When you say that:
[quote post="378"]I think that happens for two reasons: the aforementioned hate of achievement, and also the fact that Portuguese Linux users don’t actually believe in Free Software. Sure, we use it, but most of us are quick to call anyone who cares about the ideology “a fanatic” (fundamentalist, zealot, taliban, etc.).[/quote]
i couldn’t agree more. Of course, software is just a mean to an end, and the problem here in Portugal is that people take that to seriously. In Portugal, people usually only care about getting the work done. Even if there could be a quicker and better way to do it, through the improvement of the software they are using.

However, i also have to agree with others when they say that:
[quote post="378"]it’s too fragmented, there are too many choices, there’s not a single standard, and so on.[/quote]
And i’ll explain why.
[quote post="378"]If another distro appears, it’s a specialized thing.[/quote]
Ok, that’s true. But look at the number of new, forked, or whatever distros with really no specific purpose or just mimicking the purposes of others. Just take a quick look at distrowatch and you’ll notice it. That’s the bad part about it: not the fact that there are too many choices, but that many of those choices are just clones of each other.
And of the subject of clone distros, those who say that Ubuntu is a clone of Debian surely haven’t understood a thing about what Ubuntu is about.

And that’s all for now