Am Donnerstag, 23. M?rz 2006 21:00 schrieb Craig Bradney: > On Thursday 23 March 2006 20:43, DaleCoz at aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 3/23/2006 4:57:50 AM Central Standard Time, > > > > scribus-request at nashi.altmuehlnet.de writes: > > > >One girl wrote me a note saying that Scribus developers should be > > > >hunted down and strung up. > > > > > > Unfortunately, some people tend to bite you if you hand them a gift. > > > It's usually a sign of missing self worthiness - it leads these people > > > to not to see the value of other people's work. > > > > > > Bye, Tino. > > > > In this case I think it was more a matter of the girl not quite > > understanding the nature of Open Source software. I don't think she > > understood that Scribus developers are voluntarily giving their time and > > effort for the good of the community. Plus she was frustrated because > > she really wanted to do a good job and the other two people in her group > > didn't care about quality. As a result she had to do far more than her > > share of the work, including all of the layout work. When Scribus didn't > > do what she expected it to do she became more frustrated. I did explain > > that the version of Scribus we were using was a fairly early development > > version, and I hope she will look at Scribus again in six months or so, > > because based on the roadmap and the rate at which it has been improving > > Scribus will undoubtedly be much more usable by then. > > > > To be honest, I found 1.3.2 very usable with the few exceptions I noted, > > but I'm used to learning software and I'm used to finding ways of working > > around bugs or limitations. > > If you get the chance to explain.. mention a couple of things that might > put things in perspective: > > 1) Everyone learnt the software they now know at some time. At that time, > they surely took some time to learn it. Expecting to know how Scribus does > things the first time or within a very short period is somewhat > unrealistic. > > 2) Adobe and Quark and all the other commercial software companies spend > millions of dollars, yearly, and have done so for many many years with many > many developers. Scribus is 4 years old, and now has about 8 people > constantly working on it in their free/not-so-free time, with a very > helpful contributor base I must add. Money so far received to support this > effort is a **lot** less than one full time commercial developer's annual > pay for one year.
But you have to admit that it's not so easy to donate. I'm still waiting for a PayPal link and an account number to allow supporters remitting money. It's simply not there, or did I miss something? Maybe the developers could think about a non-profit Scribus foundation or something like that. At least German donators, including companies, will be able to donate to public benefit organisations and use the receipt for their tax return. > > Craig Cheers, Christoph
