On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:07 PM, WhoCares wrote: > I came here to contribute to a piece of software which I actually use. In the > hope that my tiny contribution might be something that is accepted by the > 'community'. What did I encounter? > > Character assassination. > > But I've come to realize how much of a fools errand I'm on, because nothing is > going to change the mind of a person who doesn't want to change. And that's > something I can accept. I'm wrong. I shouldn't be contributing to this list, > and > consequently .. I really shouldn't be using the GIMP because I'm not a part of > 'all of the community'.
What you shouldn't do is overreacting. But that's entirely up to you. > Progress is made in communities when people learn to co-operate. Co-operation > is > only bread through understanding. Understanding is only created via > acceptance. > Acceptance requires that the individual listen to others first. Community > isn't > a salesman's buzzword. It's fundamental to the lives of everyone contributing. > If you want to call this a community, 'to commune' would seem the first step. Which is what we've been doing since dawn of times. Claiming the opposite just because someone blamed you for using questionable arguments isn't what I would call a mature reaction. Personally, I think that some of your points were spot on, other -- completely bogus. Is this something you could live with? :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
