On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Brian David <beej...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Lindsay Haisley <fmo...@fmp.com> wrote: > > Lindsay, I agree with a whole lot of what you say, but this line is an > example one of my greatest pet peeves in discussions like this: > > > "The appropriate response to any criticism would be "if you don't like > it, go buy Pro Tools." > > That is absolutely not the appropriate response. The right response is, in > fact, what a lot of devs on this list do, to their credit. It is to ask > those with criticisms to participate in development in some way. > > A comunity developed project is not well served by telling people to go > take a hike. And no project anywhere, community-developed or otherwise, is > well-served by deflecting criticism with flippant responses. > > > > -Brian David > I should add, since we all know that tone doesn't come across in e-mails, that I'm not suggesting that Lindsay is using flippant responses to deflect criticism. I refer only to those who earnestly use a statements like "if you don't like it, go buy Pro Tools." -- -Brian David
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