On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 10:02, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote > > > And, different agendas as well. No one in free software has to work on > > things that they don't want to work on. > > > > And, the theory that "You know how to do it. You're doing all this > > other stuff, why don't you do this too?" doesn't really sound right to me. > > Chris do not view this as a justification for a "consumer" to demand > that a "producer" work for him. Rather I was trying to point out why a > "consumer" or a "semi-hacker" for that matter, might be reluctanct to > dive into a dev/patch project that they might view "over there head".
If they aren't willing to dive in, then they still have options other than asking for charity... *) Contribute something for the feature. I.e. 'I'll write up a web page detailing how to use various aspects of setup, IF you will make the chooser resizable for me'. *) Contract someone else to implement the feature for them. "I'll put $20 into a pool for the programmer that completes the feature". > IOW I don't think that just because it's Open Source and you *can* fix > it yourself, that a flippant "Fix it yourself!" response is warranted. Conversely, neither is "Fix it for me!". Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt>.
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