> FYI: There's a new AbiWord article over at Kuro5hin I think we need a new newsgroup, akin to alt.sysadmin.recovery, called something like alt.opensourcedevelopment.recovery.
Just as sysadmins have to deal with "luzers" who are completely clueless and constantly makes demands on the system administrator; Open Source Devlopers have to deal with "luzers" who do nothing but whine about how open source software does not have feature X. This class of sub-species is generally too clueless to read the documentation, the roadmap for the software, the FAQ entries about what is planned for the software, or anything else which explains what features are planned for the software in question. Instead, the jump right on the mailing list, and request that the software should have <feature they desire>. Almost always, the feature in question is one that 50 other people have already asked, and one which is prominitely visible on the software's "TO DO" list. Of course, there is the mostly harmless Luzer of OSS, who merely askes that feature X be added. Then, there is the rude ultra-luzer, who feels that software X is horrible because, dangit, it doesn't have feature X/has bug Y/etc. This kind of ultra-luzer needs a good LARTing before being allowed to have access to the internet again. Let us take the person who wrote the following missive: "Sorry, I don't see how anyone can consider a word processing program which can't handle tables to be anything other than a toy/programming assignment". This obviously shows a rather severe case of luzerness. Did this person posses the basic intelligence to go to the web site in question and see what features were being planned for future releases? No. Did this person bother to sign up on Bugzilla and vote for this feature? No. Does this person know that writing a word processor is not exactly trivial, and that there have been countless aborted attempts to make open-source word processers before AbiWord came along; none of which ever implemented tables? No. Does this person have any level of appreciation for all of the hard word that open source devlopers go through to write open source software? No. People like this obviously need treatment. They are obviously both dilusional and incapable of realizing that people besides themselves have feelings. Perhaps we should have a blood-urine sampler attached to their internet connection, insuring that they are properly does on whatever medication they take before getting on the internet. - Sam _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? La emoci�n e intensidad del deporte en Yahoo! Deportes. http://deportes.yahoo.com.mx
