On Monday 23 June 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > My question to you would be: > > Do you like to support software like cdrkit that is published by > people who attack other OSS projects?
Joerg, Let me respond with a very close analogy, because this is not a yes/no answer. I ride a great big stomping motorcycle. It's an adrenaline rush, just oozing vast amounts of power and torque. As motorcycles go, this is one of the better ones and there isn't a car on the road that comes close to this thing's ability to zoom away from traffic light into clear space. I know someone else who rides a cheap, piece of crap, Chinese 125cc scooter. Maybe it's not crap, but that is my opinion of it. So I had a long conversation with this scooter owner extolling the virtues of big bikes, the increased safety of a more powerful engine and the thrill of 984cc of mind-blowing torque. All this fell on deaf ears. The answer I got was "dude, I'm happy you have the machine you want. I just want to get to work cheaply and beat the traffic. By the way, your solution costs 10 times what mine does to buy"... I had no answer to that - I was up against a don't care output and had mistakenly assumed it would of course be a Boolean. See, CD software is close to your heart. It's not even remotely close to mine. At best, it's a nice to have. I don't care about the 50 bugs you so obviously care deeply about - I have never triggered them, they do not impact on my life in any significant way. So I simply do not care about that and am not likely to care much any time soon. Continuing to use cdrkit affords me that luxury of not getting involved, so I can carry on blissfully not caring and instead devote my energies to the projects I do care about. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
