Hi Thorsten, Am 16.12.2014 um 10:37 schrieb Thorsten Behrens:
> I think we all agree that every LibreOffice user is valued, and we > very much appreciate them using our software -- at the end of the day, > we're producing software _for_ our end users. [...] > [...] The individual user though -- on average -- > contributes just tiny amounts. So the big picture looks pretty much > like Charles' tongue-in-cheek 'almost zero'. So basically you say the same here as Charles says, even if you seem to try to choose more diplomatic words ;-) >> But I accept that our views differ significantly, and as far as I >> can see, there's no room for convergence left. So we can stop our >> discussion at this point. >> > I'm sorry you got this impression. I hope I could clarify a bit. My impression is exactly the same, so what you clarified is that depreciation of users is not Charles' personal mindset but a general thinking in TDF/LibreOffice community. And that is what I disagree with. In my eyes, users - yes, simple users - make a significant contribution when they just choose to use LibreOffice. So I am thankful to each single LibreOffice user, while I hear "almost zero" / "just tiny amounts" from your side. This makes me sad. As user, I feel not appreciated. I did not know that this is really your position. Therefore I proposed the representative role. But now I withdraw this proposal as it does not fit to your above-expressed attitude (which is not mine) towards (your?) users. I - for mine - do not believe that my view degrades the contributions of single individuals or payed fulltimers, au contraire: meritocracy in my eyes behaves like democracy here, it rates itself on its attitude to its weakest members ;-) Have a nice christmas. Nino -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
