On 2/25/2010 2:03 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >> Well, that was really uncalled for. Bob may not be God, but he doesn't >> deserve that. >> > Nobody in open source deserves that, but it's been true forever, that you get > damn little appreciation and lots of criticism from users. When I started > with > DTSS, GECOS, and MULTICS programs in the mid 1960's I got complaints about > the > output format. And that kind of user reaction continued through ISIS, and > CP/M, > a Sys3, and BSD, and Xenix, and every damn place I've ever contributed code > in > 40+ years the users have whined complained far more than they have > appreciated > the effort.
Then perhaps you could help to improve the situation by not treating Robert the way you feel you were treated. > > So while I can understand where he's coming from, I've been there and it's > not > going to get better. I think you only have to want to make it better. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
