> *START RANT HERE* > > Everyone has an opinion. As Debian is developed, organised, and debuged by a > large group of volunteers. As you can imagine it is an incredible amount of > work for someone to do in their spare time, no matter how skilled they may > be. > Sometimes documentation becomes out of date, or must be written in a hurry. > Some areas of the website are partially incomplete or slightly out of date. > they remain this way until someone involved with Debian (me, you, a > developer, > or just about anyone else who may care) decides to do something about it. > Debian people are notorious for being individualistic and self reliant. They > do work on Debian for no other reason than they feel that it is the right > thing to do. The help you are recieving on this list is given to you for > free, and voluntarily by people who are under no obligation to give you the > time of day (unless they maintain a time server at work). ALMOST NO ONE IS > GETTING PAID AND NO ONE IS PAID BY DEBIAN FOR ANYTHING. We like to hear > from, > and to help, other users. > > *STOP RANT* >
perfectly understandable rant, but was it really necessary? i didn't really think their question was deserving of something so... harsh? good blow against ppl who think debian owes them something and i fully agree but still, perhaps a more appropriate time to bring it up would have been good.
