Hi robert, On 01/23/2008 at 4:55 PM, robert engels wrote: > If the users are "just dropping in a new version" they are not > contributing to the community... I think just the opposite, they are > parasites.
I reject your characterization of passive users as "parasites"; I suspect that you intend your casual use of this highly prejudicial term to license wholesale abandonment of them as a valid constituency. In my estimation, nearly every active contributor to open source projects, including Lucene, was once a passive user. If you discourage that pipeline, you cut off the supply of fresh perspectives and future contributions. Please, let's not do that. Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
