so +1. Thanks. On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 04:07:33PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > While his rant is about a year old, I wonder if things have improved for > him? > > When he discusses GNOME Shell, etc., perhaps what he doesn't realize is > that many of those developers may not be eating their own dog food as it > were. For how long haven't we been reading about and watching various > videos from FOSS conferences only to realize they're often using the most > proprietary hardware and software in the world today, AND DAMNED PROUD > OF IT. It made me sick read yet another developer (sometimes even a > Debian Developer at that) wax on and on about the stuff from that > particular company. > > They're writing code and simply throwing it over the wall to us the > masses these days. It seems to me the Free Desktop.org projects are no > longer led by passionate community developers seeking to build a stable > and usable Free desktop. Nope, they're simply writing code to mimic > their favorite Free Software hostile system but without the integration > and testing necessary for it to actually work as they're told it should. > Well, they're not using what they write on a daily basis so the reported > bugs are easily ignored. > > It's frustrating. > > Until the projects are of, by, and for the community, I don't see the > prognosis improving. It is my hope that Devuan will sustain enough of a > community so that some of the things we had up until a few years ago can > be recovered and retained. I, for one, am not giving in or giving up! > > - Nate > > -- > > "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all > possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." > > Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
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