On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 21:07 +0100, Miros/law Baran wrote: > 16.11.2005 pisze Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Debian is staffed by volunteers who do this because they want to. > > I, for one, appreciate very, very much what they do for me. > > <quote> > Writing/maintaining software is providing a service (even when > it's free). You need to listen to your customers if you want to > learn what features they need and thereby improve your product.
Consumer, yes (of bandwidth and DD time, effort, etc), or "user", but not a customer, since the dictionary explicitly uses terms and phrases like "makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer" and "person with whom a business house has dealing". Now, if used RHAS, then I'd be a customer of RH, since I'd be paying them. > Of course, the customer isn't _always_ right, and often they > suggest specific implementations which don't fit into the "grand > scheme", but it's the input of ideas which is important. Even if > they seem at first to be "wrong", I've found it's always worth > thinking about them, even if you ultimate modify or reject them. > This is all IMHO, of course. If you did s/customer/user/ then I'd agree with you. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "There's no obfuscated Perl contest because it's pointless." Jeff Polk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]