On Thursday 23 March 2006 22:07, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > 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.
It will be possible soon, yes we are going to start an NFPO soon. Thats not actually a complaint about received money, although it would really help at times, its just a statement that the two worlds are very hard to compare. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 191 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060323/f64401ed/attachment-0001.pgp
