Citeren Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * Melchior FRANZ -- Saturday 28 May 2005 19:39: > > Oh Dear. Now I know more about Cygwin than I ever wanted to know. > Never have > > I seen a bigger ******* in any of the numerous projects where I am > interested > > in and follow closely, or where I take part. Typically, such > projects die off > > quickly (XFree86 phenomenon), and they deserve it. > > No, wait! That didn't come out right! I mean, *these* die with such > people > in charge, not those where I take part. Although I admit that I can > be > unpleasant to work with, too ... ;-) > > m. >
Just adding my 2 eurocents :-). Some quotes from cgf from the thread: *But, the nice thing about free software is that it doesn't matter what I want. Anyone here can help. I'm just one person. I'm certainly not going to stop anyone who wants to dig in. Asserting that people can back up unsubstantiated surmises by building the software and actually verifying for themselves is one of the basic advantages of free software. As painful as it is for most people, if there is an issue that bothers you about cygwin, you really can take some time to look into it yourself rather than relying on the random kindness of strangers. Think of what a hero you'll be if you figure out a way to improve cygwin's "slowness". *I don't think there is much to be gained by reiterating that you have a large user base who is impacted by this. We're not a technical support organization here. If you have a problem, and we can duplicate it, and figure it out, we'll try to fix it... eventually. There is no special priority assigned because the free software that you downloaded is causing problems to a bunch of your users. I am sure that you know this but I still feel it is important to make this point. At this point Andy (or Mr Ross ;-)) pointed out that Flightgear is an open source project. I think Mr Faylor made a nice 180° turn there :-D. *Yes. You're right. I should have clicked on the link rather than assuming. I had a knee jerk reaction to what I thought was a company expecting cygwin tech support. I was very wrong and I apologize for acting on my lame assumption. I don't know if an open source developer (team) should also help out real companies for free, even though a decent bug report was made. One could expect a company is capable of just hiring more programmers to tackle their specific problems with the software, but I can believe a manager isn't always prepared to spend the resources. So basically: are there any rules to 'discriminate' between companies and open source developers? I've been following the Flightgear and JSBSim mailinglist for some time now, and most of the questions have been answered without discriminating (like it should IMHO). Greets, Steven _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
