On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:23:02PM +0200, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > On 2007-11-16 13:38 -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > You are naive. The open source community is harsh and does not tend to > > cater to someone's feelings. Kind of like the real world. > > In the harsh real world the companies sue you for distributing > their software. I might just as well adopt their licenses and > practices: as you have admitted, the FOSS herd is harsh and no > different from them.
So why are you acting all surprised? > > > I fail to see how that is your problem. Its free software, they change > > it they deal with it. > > They don't deal with it: they don't rename the software and tell > users to not bug the original author. As long the software clearly > points to the original author, users will come asking support for > the distro's version. That is the case if the software has a "face" > and has not become such "generic" software that just is there, > and of which there are known to be various implementations (such > as the basic *nix tools). And you say: "go away" or nothing at all. Wow, thats really hard. > > > Why do you care if someone else is starring at blurry fonts? > > I care when they make it purposefully difficult for me to personally > use unblurry fonts, or some particular font (such as the beautiful > X Helvetica bitmap font, which is often blocked). I will not have my > software support such software that takes away or makes personal > choice for me very difficult. How do they make it difficult for you? What you are saying is: I use their stuff and I don't like it. How about not using their stuff? > > > Dealing with Linux people tends to anger people. Maybe you should try to > > leave the linuxers behind and work in a more constructive community. > > And that is? While indeed *BSD (of which only FreeBSD is likely to have > the driver support I'd need) don't suffer from such utter and total > crap as udev, and other recent idiot box idiocies in the Linux kernel, > they still unfortunately rely on the same luserland (sic) that tends > to be designed for the monoculturist desktop projects these days. The best community for you seems to be the Tuomo one. You know, your own world where everything is just like you want it. You know what, you could even control who gets a passport. > > > Your bitterness stems from > > getting involved with people you are incompatible with. > > That's about 99% of people. As witnessed in this thread. Then why do you keep talking? > > > And if you are that pissed off, why don't you just quit? > > You don't owe anyone anything. > > I like to finish what I've started. Then I'll quit. You don't need to release your code and put up with it. You can just keep it all to yourself. You are apparently a masochist that keeps asking for more. > > -- > Tuomo
