On 07/15/2002 17:58, "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Now, can we dump this waste of time, and move on to more serious issues? > > Let's just wait until this issue resurfaces and blows up in a more serious > manner. > > Of course, you'll just blame everyone else, instead of understanding that > users with different levels of qualifications and sophistications than your > own god-like abilities even dare to exist on this plane. > > Whatever. Gee, I'm sorry, but at what point did we all become absolved from having to learn our tools? You are expected to learn the controls of your car *before* you drive it off the lot. You are expected to know how to use a phone, *before* you buy one. It is not too much to ask that someone who buys a computer program reads things called "read me" and checks the settings to make sure they know what those settings do. This is not asking someone to be 'god-like', it is asking them to be 'adult-like', nay, even responsible. At some point, we'll stop seeing bug fixes or needed features, because the MBU will be too busy making the interface into one big button that reads "Do Stuff" john -- The GPL is not something we really considered to be a license so much as a political manifesto, and speaking purely for myself, I prefer to keep my license agreements and my politics separate. I feel that code which isn't being used in a situation where it COULD be used is code which isn't achieving its full potential and the GPL scares a lot of potential users away, which is simply counter-productive in my opinion. I don't care whether or not the users give their changes back to me, that's just an added bonus if it happens and nothing I'd want to try and enforce at the point of a gun. --Jordan Hubbard -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
