Dear fellow listers,
There was a time when Linux lists were all about collaboration. Sysadmins
would collaborate with other sysadmins, hobbyists would collaborate with
other hobbyists, developers would collaborate with other developers.
It was widely understood that without the developers, this glorious project
and movement didn't exist. Blessed were the coders.
Look at Linux today. Look at Mandrake in particular. Who would have been
game enough to stand up and predict what a distro was capable of, just two
short years ago.
These days, there are more developers than ever, of course, and vastly
greater numbers of users. Once, the only users were by definition
developers..
I read this list daily and rely on the sage advice of many of it's posters,
and sincerely try to put back what little I'm capable of.
What I'm seeing more and more, however, and what makes me a little sad and
nostalgic for the pioneering days, is a general movement towards
"complaining to the developers" 'cause something doesn't work to a user's
full expectations.
I make a point of swallowing my flamage, however I think that it's time for
us all to remember that Linux is a journey, not a destination.
We owe a huge debt of gratitude to open source developers the world over,
and for us blessed few to have chosen Mandrake-Linux, we owe the Mdk team a
bloody big thank you.
On behalf of every internal voice I have that curses your work when it
doesn't do what I think it should ;-) , THANK YOU. I promise I'll have
patience and I'll always try to remember how hard you folks work, for not
enough material reward. I'll try to pay you back with my evangelism of your
work.
--
Simon Cousins
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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