Stefan Peter wrote:

> Free software development means that you are free to have an opinion
> and state it. It means that you don't have to agree on everything and
> can't be forced to do or approve something if you don't want to. Your
> critic would have been justified if Yuv had prohibited the 
> publication of the installer.

Sorry, it was not me who brought this discussion here. And it was Yuv
who was "annoyed" and accused me of demanding things, which is totally
nonsense in this case. I didn't demand anything, I expressed my
disappointment with the politics regarding windows binaries.

There was no point to bring the "If you want to have binaries, compile
them yourself" sermon again. And this "Contribute something before 
criticizing" sermon is plainly silly and ignorant.

Why do you guys make it so hard for someone to simply test or recommend 
hugin? Why this raised forefinger and this teacher's attitude all the 
time about what open source software is and what not? Don't you see that 
this sounds arrogant? Even worse: It might sound as if hugin developers 
don't want and don't like their users.

You complain that there where no windows testers. There are lot's of 
people willing and wanting to test hugin and to supply bug reports - me 
included (perhaps you noticed: I supplied one shortly after the binaries 
where available).

But most windows users (me included) won't go through the hardships of 
compiling hugin to supply a bug report. And if I supply bug reports I 
want to do it for a software "as is", not for something where I don't 
know whether I introduced the bugs myself...

best regards
-- 
Erik Krause
http://www.erik-krause.de

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