ragingFX

I've been a devoted user of the very famous open source 3d application which is Blender. I've been showcasing this product since last year when I just finished my self-proclaimed project. Since that day, I've been a member of DabaweGNU and started showcasing this app. I've been telling it to all people, to my friends, school, and some major IT events here in Davao City, Philippines. It's been fun being a person showcasing this kind of application. But also there's a dismay on my part, as I felt I'm not successful enough because as of now, I haven't seen students embracing Blender. Some of them still looks up on commercial 3d applications like 3ds Max, Maya and Cinema4d. I can't blame them, as this is what they've been seeing in the media. Multimedia in Open source is not widely adopted here in Philippines, well this is in my own observation. Digital artists use commercial tools like the products from Adobe which is Photoshop and Illustrator. Corel is also promoted by some Design Studio located here. But speaking back to open source, there's no acknowledgment happening on it. People here are just so ignorant while other countries are already shifting because of its so called "NO COST or FREE". Reasons to this problem are enormous, no one can't count them. Due to my boredom, I just listed some of mine. 1. Lack of awareness When people say that GIMP is so hard to use and the Blender interface is not friendly. It is not about these applications. It's about the awareness that those people doesn't have. If those people used GIMP as their first image editor rather than Photoshop, then they would not complain about GIMP itself. Instead they will be amazed by Photoshop and help more the GIMP community on improving it. 2. Lack of government will The Philippine government doesn't care about Open Source for now. Even though they must implement this to schools. I don't want to talk more about the Government as they're busy enough on stabilizing our economy. 3. Schools or Universities doesn't care Almost all university (including mine) doesn't support open source. Ohhh really? Yah I can say it because there's been no will on adapting the use of Linux based operating systems. Or just promoting the use of FOSS applications. Even though Ubuntu is quite popular with it's easy to install and use. These schools doesn't have the will to try or even install it as dual boot on their machines. The idea of costs is also blind to them. Lucky enough some students are more open minded to try some Linux distros for fun. Sadly these students are just the same number as my fingers. It's already expected that students in these universities doesn't have any point on Open Source when they graduate. There was a time when someone talked to me that he was shocked when his trainer only allowed him to use Paint.Net. I was also shocked on what he just said. In my mind, I never expected that these free applications are the one who is rarely used by most people, heck. And to summarize If the lack of awareness will continue to reign. We Filipino's will continue to be born pirates. Even now, when I'm talking Blender/GIMP/Inkscape to arrogant pirates, it's the same as talking to trash cans. So what if we'll be all trash cans? *Update When making this post until it is published, I've been doing a lot of revisions in it. I've finalized this enough, and adding "some" to the title is my last revision (thanks to Leigh for pointing that out). Every blog is written by the author's own opinions. As for this post, this is just the cause of emerging stuffs going around my location. So what's to worry about, right?.. ^_^