On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 03:12 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> For some, it's "personal satisfaction", for others it might be
> "scratch an itch", or "fame", or some other motivation. For a
> complete list, buy Eric's book and read it. One of the things
> notably missing from the list of "motivating factors for
> volunteers to do stuff for free" is "rude people making obnoxious
> demands".
>
> That particular item is on the "ways to get someone to never
> listen to you again, and purposefully do the opposite of what
> you want" list.
>
Precisely why I was trying to show that there are people who appreciate
what Eric offered to do, and hope that while it could not erase the
damage of that insult, at least mitigates its effect a bit.
I wonder what's happening with Fedora-devel. Not only do we get newbies
nowadays asking configuration questions, we also get Slashdot/Usenet-
style flame wars...
If you think the flamewars on fedora-devel are bad, go look at
debian-devel someday :)
- Panu -