begin quoting DJA as of Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 09:58:45PM -0700: > Todd Walton wrote: > >On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Nicholas Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrote: > >>I don't get it, why aren't there patches supplied with this e-mail? > >>Are thousands of stupid/little/boring problems fixable in a day? > > > >Aww come on. I was actually impressed with the responses so far, but > >what you said is a non-answer and the Linux community has gone over > >this so many times with itself. "Put up or shut up" is not a reason > >for the shortcomings in an open source application. > > Sure it is. Maybe it's the most legitimate response in the case of OSS. > > If things are as they are, then maybe that's the way the majority of > users like them. At the least, the developer is content. "Better is the > arch-enemy of Good Enough".
Not so much content, as busy with something else, I would think. You don't scratch an itch until the itch goes away, you scratch an itch until some other itch itches more, then you scratch THAT itch. I was happy with fvwm. Then fvwm2. I didn't find ctwm all that bad. And afterstep was okay. Windowmaker works for me as well. > If things are not as you like, then /you/ may be the one most motivated > to get them "fixed" to your liking. Do it yourself; make suggestions to, > or file bug reports with the developers; hire someone; inspire someone. This is why so many people use a proprietary OS. They're voting with their dollars. One of the things that open-source has going for it is that users an offer up, in theory, reasonable feedback, and have some hope that some developer will say "Oh, that's easy to do, given what I know", and do it. -- Where is my trusted path? Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
