From: KHMan <kei...@gm...> - 2014-05-27 08:19:01
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On 5/27/2014 1:13 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2014-05-26 09:22-0400 Pete McNeil wrote: > >> On 2014-05-25 23:00, KHMan wrote: >>> It's just that certain users need an adjustment. They can't expect >>> Free Software/Open Source projects to run spiffily like actual >>> products. >> >> I usually just lurk here unless I can help somebody. But this hit one of >> my buttons. >> >> There is no reason our expectations of free/open software should be any >> less than our expectations of "actual" products. [...] > > Well said. Heh heh, look, I guess I put it in too few words. I simply did not want to write long postings. I mean that users of FLOSS should not expect some kind of customer-supplier relationship. Well sure, many a time it works great when the community solves problems for people, but sometimes people begin to take that for granted. Resources is scarce, we are a community, we are not customers of the project to be pampered to some expectation of some kind of service level. Tell 'em to de newbies, we canna take the best produce from de farm and do nothing for de land. We gotta fertilize the land, care and nuture the soil. When you see them nice produce in the supermarkets, well it took effort to grow 'em nice for you. -- Cheers, Kein-Hong Man (esq.) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |