On Saturday 04 November 2006 17:51, Andreas Hanke wrote: > Tony Pott schrieb: > > You're missing the point. > > No, I am not, you are. > > > Microsoft have been making war against the > > Linux community for years. Novell have elected to make a separate peace > > with Microsoft. This makes Novell no longer part of the community. > > Who defines who is "part of the community" or not? > > If you had an idea what all this stuff is about, you would know that > people at SUSE are just in this very moment squashing the openSUSE 10.2 > buglists in order to have a good openSUSE 10.2 release. > > openSUSE 10.2, a product that most users don't even pay for. And the > people at SUSE are doing this on a Saturday, where "normal" people don't > do any work at all. And they will continue tomorrow, on a Sunday, too. > > Did I forget that they stopped yesterday, Friday, after midnight, doing > the same? And whom are they doing this for? For you. How many hours a > day are you, the one who defines the community, contributing? > > But you have nothing better to do than repeatedly posting the same FUD > bullshit about MS and betrayals and the community. The community are > people who *contribute* to the project and not just talk about it. > > There are still people who prefer damaging the project by producing FUD, > which is per se maybe understandable, but then please don't define who > belongs to the community... And feel free to say goodbye if you don't > want to belong to this community anymore. It's OK!
I just wanted to wrote so you know that someone (me, at the very least) appreciates a lot what SUSE is doing. And sometimes, judging by the mailing lists, the "community" may sound like an ungrateful, bitching & moaning mass. But keep in mind that loud noise can be made easily by only a few. There are a lot of people who understand what you've said. So your effort is not a waste. On Saturday 04 November 2006 19:41, Raúl Moratalla wrote: > El Sábado, 4 de Noviembre de 2006 16:51, Andreas Hanke escribió: > > But you have nothing better to do than repeatedly posting the same FUD > > bullshit about MS and betrayals and the community. The community are > > people who *contribute* to the project and not just talk about it. > > I think that you are wrong. The Community are developers and users, not > only developers. Yes, certainly, but to be fair, the users who do nothing more than _just use_, without contributing anything have the least say in the matters. Contributing as an user has a lot of forms, begining with buying the box, coding, bugreports, helping other users. However, sometimes it feels that those who bitch & moan are not contributing much, but are freeloading and then trolling. But one can never be certain on the internet, it could only be a false impression. :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
