On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:41:29AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > Trying to say "[GNOME upstream] continuously try to [...] force their > > blessings on all users." is just wrong. Nobody is forced to use Gnome. > Sorry, I've implicitly meant "all _of their_ users". My apologies.
I write a backup program. It uses its own storage format, and people sometimes ask if they could use tar files instead. But I am evil incarnate and FORCE them to use my own storage format instead. Should I repent and make my program allow my users to choose between storage formats? Maybe I should form a council of users who would dictate technical design decisions for me, which I would promise to be bound by and implement faithfully? Let me put this in another way: I try to make my program as good as it can be, and I think that the storage format I've developed is better than storing backups in tar files. I truly, deeply feel that using my format makes the program better, and that offering tar as a choice would be pretty much disastrous, because almost all of the features I am aiming for are impossible to implement well, or at all, using tar files as the backend. What you seem to view as a moral failing or sinister plot, I view as a strive for excellence. It is my impression that this is what is happening with GNOME. The upstream GNOME developers have a vision of what makes a good desktop environment, and are doing their best to implement that. Over the past 15 years, their vision has changed, several times, as they have learned more and gained experience about using computers for various things. Each time, some people like their changed vision, others do not. You don't agree with their vision. That is fine. Your reaction is to accuse them of things, and that's not cool. Accusations, insinuations, conspirary theories, or flippancy make for an extremely poor basis for constructive discussion. -- http://www.cafepress.com/trunktees -- geeky funny T-shirts http://gtdfh.branchable.com/ -- GTD for hackers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131025075144.GM4353@holywood
