On Monday 30 September 2002 23:05, Han Boetes wrote:
> I never treat contributors with contempt. She is asking support for
> a historical release on the developers list. Then comes up
> with a solution that is beyond rediculous.
If it was a ridiculous solution how come it worked? Nothing succeeds
like success. So she posted to the inappropriate list; big deal. She
solved a problem and for this she gets laughed at.
> I didn't flame her. I told her the truth. That she doesn't like it
> is her problem.
For a Mandrake employee to call someone's proposed fix stupid and then
laugh at them is beyond a flame. It's a public relations disaster.
> No I want to get back to work. Solve bugs in cooker, update rpms
> and prepare for the next release. I don't want anybody in here
> thinking this is a support channel.
She didn't ask for support, she gave a fix to a problem.
>
> People with good questions about cooker can use my attention. Not
> the people that ask here because all the cracks hang out here.
I dare say she is a crank. She came up with a solution to a problem. If
your attitude is that a good portion of the people that come here are
cranks then why, pray tell, have a Cooker? Just have closed beta
testing like SuSE does. I don't think you understand that to insult
people, as a Mandrake employee, is a powerful negative advertisement.
It turns out that this lady has used Mandrake since 7.0. It was the
first time she posted a fix.
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Cheers,
Jonathan
"UNIX is to computer science what Shakespeare is to English"
