On 11/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 16:45:55 -0600 > From: Josh Burks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On 11/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <big snip> > > Maybe you should ask for your money back... :) > > Maybe I should ask for my -time- back. Pity I spent all this money > on this pile o' hardware over here... > > Seriously: You're apparently making the same "it was free, so you > have no right to complain" argument that a lot of people have made > about various problems in F/OSS and elsewhere. That denigrates the > real problems that real people are having, not to mention insulting > all the time, sweat, and tears that real people have already spent > in building the system so far, -and- likewise the effort that the > users have spent on getting the results to work. > > Sorry, but yours is a bogus argument, and you should know it. > I'm trying to make this a better system. One way to do this is to > complain, because otherwise problems can lurk for a long time without > getting fixed. Not only does it raise the chances that somebody with > commit privs will actually be willing to check in fixes, it raises the > chances that somebody -else- who's also pissed-off about the state of > the world will go and spend the time hacking to fix it, now that they > know they're not the only one, that a fix would improve the lives of > -lots- of people, and that their fix will be accepted into the tree. >
Maybe you should take your complaints to the -dev list if you REALLY want them fixed. I haven't seen a single post from you over there yet. This is a users list. I like to read the posts to see if I can help with others problems, but wading through you novels about KnoppMyth's useablity and Mythtv in general is getting old fast. > But by simply being snide -in public-, on the mailing list as opposed > to just to me, you're evidently trying to interfere with an honest > attempt to get things fixed. That makes you look foolish. > > Maybe you should get out of the way. > You're probably right, so I'll shut up now and continue ignoring your posts. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
