Harm Geerts ha scritto:
Just because *you* wouldn't use it, doesn't mean it's crap...
Just because *you* wouldn't use it, doesn't mean you have to badmouth it.
You seem to forget people spend time creating these great programs at no cost.
You don't insult the program, you insult the people behind it.
I personally like and use amaroK, but if he feels it's a smoking pile of
crap, it's in his whole rights to loudly say so. Many nice and helpful
people end up coding piles of crap, the fact they are lovely people
doing free software doesn't stops me to tell their program is a (free)
pile of crap.
But even worse is that you based your *opinion* on a screenshot and the
dependencies without even touching the program... and then tell the whole
world it sucks.
He doesn't like something with these dependencies and the interface
depicted in the screenshot. So his comments are perfectly appropriate.
Amarok constitutes a replacement for xmms just like an 18-wheeler
tractor-trailer combo constitutes a replacement for a half-ton pickup
truck.
Amarok is not a replacement, amarok is an alternative, which is exactly what
this thread is about. If you compare them as equals your statement holds
truth, *nobody* would argue that.
I think he implicitly meant "something about as lightweight and simple"
by reading the word "alternative". And I feel he's quite right. I
happily switched from xmms to amarok, but they are definitely not
similar programs targeting the same audience.
And now stop the incumbent flamewars :)
m.
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