Re: [Fink-users] 0.5.0 Update

[Phil Ershler]

It seems like about every six months I have to send this same message. The people that put their own time and effort in to the fink project do it completely out of the goodness of their hearts. It has been a spectacular success. If there have been problems it's unfortunate but crap happens. The fink teams seem to get very little praise when things go right and just a raft of crap when things don't go quite so smoothly. If your livelihood depends on ANY software product (free, shareware or commercial), you should test any new releases carefully before committing to them. Nobody forced anybody to update to 0.5.0. If you're not directly working on fink projects, the least you could do is help field test the new releases on a non production machine. If you're not willing to at least do this, you have no business complaining about a wonderful resource you pay absolutely nothing for.

With my apologies to fink contributors for other's rudeness,

Phil


On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 07:10 PM, Brad Cox wrote:

At 05:40 PM -0800 12/16/02, Ben Hines wrote:

Eric: you are welcome to your money back.

That's hardly a helpful response. This just sends the message that free means its not worth having and might even damage your system as apparently happened in this case. The same thing happened to me but I needed to reinstall anyway.

Somebody screwed up on this one. It happens. Why not just say as much, resolve to do better next time, and not reinforce free software's bad reputation?
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