On Friday 04 November 2005 06:14 pm, Josh Burks wrote: > 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.
He should only post on the dev list if he wants starts contributing in a useful manner. The users list is for random bitching, the dev list is for people who want to help. Isaac _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
