Re: [Anygui-devel] Disgruntled would-be user
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From: Prabhu R. <pr...@ae...> - 2004-04-10 10:59:55
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Dear Magnus, As someone who has followed this project, I feel for you. Its always nice receiving a pleasant email thanking you for your work on an OSS project. Its terrible receiving something as lousy as this. Most of us never receive a post thats this mean and downright stupid. I think you are taking this character a little too seriously. Is this persons opinion of any importance to you? Everyone on the face of this planet has an opinion. Only few of them really matter to you. Everyone in this community appreciates your work and the goals you seek to achieve with this project. Then again if someone's opinion does matter to you, they would never say things the way this person did. This character is a troll, quite out of his/her mind and really has nothing sensible to say. If the person was worth his/her salt he/she have chosen to help with the project. You are not obliged to anyone. Its evident that the person understands little of the "Linux community" and how it works. You did not claim to create something in a year that something substantial would result. You certainly did not intrude on anyone, you (along with many others) tried to do something really cool. So you can't be "condemmend and ostrisized" (the moron can't spell!). Hmm, perhaps he really means "commended". The person also does not know what ostracized means. Unless of course you are to be ostracized from the person's community, which would be a blessing. So, here is a person who is evidently in anger (and therefore behaves like a complete jackass), can't spell, is incompetent to help with the project and is stupid enough to hurt the person who tried to the make the world a better place. Do you really value the opinion of such a person? The post is best ignored. Its simply not worth it. Essentially, don't worry about trolls, you (and we) know you have done the best you can for a community. So as Laura best put it "to hell with this moron." Keep up the cool ideas and great work. cheers, prabhu p.s. I was surprised by the small print in the Atox announcement. I now understand the reason. >>>>> "MLH" == Magnus Lie Hetland <ma...@he...> writes: MLH> Laura Creighton <la...@st...>: >> MLH> [snip] >> MLH, what you have demonstrated, at worst-best is the courage >> to fail. MLH> Or just youthful exuberance and enthusiasm... or something ;) >> You think that this is a still live project, and I think that >> it has failed, MLH> Well... I think it deserves the necessary work to get a 0.2 MLH> release out the door -- all the work that went into the new MLH> architecture ought to be able to crawl out of CVS. MLH> On the other hand: The project does not seem as "live" as it MLH> did to me originally. I guess one of the reasons I'm still MLH> motivated to work on it is guilt about the sort of issues MLH> raised by our complaining would-be user here. Not sure MLH> whether getting a release will really help anyone there, MLH> though. >> and you all got my reasons as to why I think it has, as to why >> it has none of my current attention. MLH> Right. >> What you did not get was what a pleasure and an honour it was >> to participate with you all on the bits that did work. I >> learned a ton! I now know exactly why weakrefs work, and use >> them in my work all the time. MLH> Thanks! I've learned a lot too. (Among other things, I've MLH> used a very explicit disclaimer about future support in MLH> describing my Atox project, in the hope that I won't get into MLH> a situation like this again.) >> to hell with this moron. MLH> BTW, I wonderd a bit about what position this Sheltchin MLH> person had in the Open Source community, and all I could find MLH> was this: MLH> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9768868~mode=flat MLH> Basically a complaint about some changes made by his ISP. The MLH> last sentence was quite enlightening: MLH> So after loosing a day of work notifying my customers that MLH> there may be a problem, wasting time with them on the phone MLH> as they routed me through all of the people who didn't MLH> understand, and opening other email accounts with another MLH> ISP - I am reduced to writing hate mail since they don't MLH> give a darn. MLH> So writing hate mail seems to be a legitimate course of MLH> action to him. Oh, well. >> creativity is best fostered in environments where it can take >> the risk of failing. MLH> Indeed. >> being pleasurable to the peanut gallery, and being admired, is >> of secondary importance. MLH> I guess soo. But some of us (i.e. me) are, perhaps, a bit too MLH> hung up on being liked -- or at least not being strongly MLH> disliked. But this is all a learning experience, I suppose. >> Laura MLH> -- Magnus Lie Hetland "Oppression and harassment is a small MLH> price to pay http://hetland.org to live in the land of the MLH> free." -- C. M. Burns |