On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Joe Konecny <jkone...@rmtohio.com> wrote: > On 3/18/2011 5:00 AM, hans...@gmail.com wrote: > This isn't valid. With today's pipes bandwidth isn't a concern as > far as forums go. I realize this is a mailing list and not a
I meant the mental bandwidth of the participants. > forum but you can probably read the archives if it bothers you. One > could argue that the more (quality) traffic we have the better. I stand > by my assertion if you want a product to succeed than it is better > to relentlessly answer questions. If I had a product I was trying > to sell, I assure you that is what I would do. We don't want to > chase away users. Then development stops. Key word is quality. Which IMO means interesting discussions that further the development efforts as per the "smart questions" howto. "We" aren't selling anything, opensource software isn't a "product", it's a project driven by its users - success is simply satisfying their needs. If there aren't enough sufficiently skilled and motivated users around to keep a project going, then it dies and so it should, but the number of non-contributing users are not a support but a drain on the communities resources if they don't follow basic netiquette. If you want to become a user you need to pay the price - in the FOSS world, that usually means higher knowledge/experience prerequisites and a steeper learning curve, not to mention the implied obligation to contribute back to the community. No one is obliged to help people that haven't read the docs or searched for answers to FAQs asking basic questions. However if you would like to spend your time doing so, no one will object. Just don't talk as if anything you get for free from the generous developers and user community is yours by right, everything you get here is a gift for which the only appropriate response is gratitude. And of course all of this is just IMHO, feel free to disagree, that's what makes the world so interesting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
