On 17-Dec-08, at 2:52 PM, David Brown wrote: > It's vitally important for any software project to get feedback from > users if they are not happy about something.
I agree. We develop for the users inevitably. > It's best if it's worded > politely - "it would be really nice if virtualbox could do ...", but > that applies for paid-for software too. You certainly don't have the > right to *demand* anything, or bad-mouth the software suppliers or > developers unless you have paid good money for it (and you seldom have > that right even if you *have* paid - you have to exhaust all polite > avenues first). I agree. > Remember, users of free (gratis) software are not charity cases meekly > accepting handouts with grovelling thanks - and I don't believe that > is > what Sun is looking for. Of course, we are all very grateful for to > the virtualbox team for the software - part of that gratitude can be > shown by feedback that may lead to an even better product. Go VBox Team!! > And incidentally, I think Jørgen's post was not a complaint - merely a > slightly oddly worded question from a non-native English speaker > with a > sticky question mark key. > Yah, it is far to easy to misinterpret the "mood" of an email. Manners go both ways. > mvh., > > David > I love what everyone (including the active user) has done to improve and develop VirtualBox. In my opinion, it far excels Parallels on the Mac for stability. (If you stay away from the 'experimental' bits) I see that VBox has VMWare square in it's sights, to overtake first pole position. mars _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
