On Monday 21 November 2005 05:42 pm, Georg Vollnhals wrote: > .. I was only watching the mailing > lists for a long time and was aware of the rough and often very > unfriendly tone you find here. Sometimes you have the impression of > "stay away, you are disturbing" or "grow up until you can play with us" > or "it is our toy, we don't want you".
I've been reading both lists for 2 or 3 years, and have not seen this. People who have this impression are telling me more about themselves than about the FG developers. I have gotten some short responses, like "Look in the source code.", but I expected that and didn't take it personally. > Please, there are also a *lot* of very nice and helpful people and I am > *very* thankful for all the *personal* help I got in the last months but > if we freely invite people to post their problems on the lists (in the > AVSIM forum there are several posts which suggest to mail the problems > to th *developer* ((not user)) list) then we will get here what we have > - very helpless, naive and often very *young* users with very > *difficult* problems related to the wide spread of PC hardware and > software. Why don't they just stick with MSFS. It's very good software, and inexpensive, comes with tech support, and has a very large user community. What are they looking for in FG? Do they even understand what an open-source project is? BTW, I built this computer specifically to run FlightGear, using inexpensive components from Tiger-Direct that I chose after investigating which components work best with OpenGL and my OS. I wouldn't dream of thinking that a graphics-intensive, open-source simulator project *must* work with whatever box I happen to be running. Dave _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
