Hi,
On 9/11/07, Rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pradeepto Bhattacharya wrote:
> > On 9/9/07, Rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I don't have Gutsy or Fiesty loaded.
> >
> > That's not an issue you know. Well if you want updated
> > packages you have to upgrade or build it yourself and hopefully they
> > have been fixed. Again if not, file a bug report.
> >
> Updated packages with bug fixes should be available through apt repos.
> However functionality is about wish lists not bugs. Anyway I agree with
Well, please check a bugzilla again. You can tag a bug
report as "WISHLIST". The developers would see that as a wishlist and
not as a bug.
> everything else you said. Maybe libre based packages are going too fast
> in the development cycle and nothing long term stable results from it.
Have you ever read any release cycle docs/plans for any
libre software project?
>
> Libre software works well for corporates who can afford their own
> programmers who can make improvements and customizations to the software
> due to its libre nature. The same is true for the do-it-yourself
If that was true, a small ashram in Panvel wouldn't have
migrated from Windows to Linux. Mind you the didnot just internet at
their place. But they needed stuff for page layout, office suite and
more stuff - oh and all that on donated (or otherwise) hardware which
was not even close to being called semi-powerful boxes. It took one
guy with interest to do that - I am not sure how far they went with
thier migration since I last visited them. The guy responsible is on
this list, afaik. He even has asked questions on this list few times.
> various versions of software. They need software that works at that time
> not after bug fixes. I can't give software to a customer saying that
> "Right now it won't work for you because it has bugs or less
> functionality but wait for some weeks or months, and the problem will
> definitely get fixed". Till then what should the customer do?
Again, this is software not magic and developers (
either sitting inside cubicles or in their own dark rooms or some such
place ) write these software not wizards from Hogwarts School, you
know.
Cheers!
Pradeepto
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