On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 04:42:31PM -0700, Kendall Bennett wrote: >Jon Leech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'll back that up. Besides which, after a few years of being bitched >> at (and in one case involving a friend who's a senior software engineer at >> a commodity graphics vendor, physically threatened) because their company >> wasn't doing enough for Linux/OSS, I know a number of folks in industry >> who have moved well away from their initial pro-Linux/OSS position. It >> would be foolish to think that the personal views of important individuals >> inside a company do not have an effect on that company's official >> policies. >> >> It definitely DOES NOT WORK to harangue, Slashdot, or otherwise >> abuse the people responsible for the product you care about. At best you >> and others like you will be tuned out in the future. At worst you will be >> responsible for creating hostility towards you and your needs. There is no >> upside to this behavior. > >I agree with that 100%. We actually would have had a release version of >our Linux product at least three years ago, except for the massive amount >of negative feedback we received during our initial public beta cycle on >slashdot etc. Most of the complaints were along the lines of "it ain't >free", "where's the source" etc. It left such a bad taste in our mouths >that when the original intern working on the project went home, we >basically canned the product and only recently got back to working on it >again. Thankfully the Linux community seems much more receptive to our >products now (but then again we haven't announced anything on slashdot in >years ;-).
Frankly, your own rants against XFree86 and some of its volunteers recently are no different than this. It sure left a bad taste in our mouths. There is a sickening propensity towards hostile and intimidating behaviour from several quarters, and it deserves the negative results it will surely achieve. David -- David Dawes Founder/committer/developer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
