On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 07:27:26PM -0400, TK009 wrote:
William Jon McCann wrote:
>
> In this particular case, there is nothing wrong with telling some
> people either:
a) you may have to wait *years* in order to get the optimal experience.
b) The current release of this product is a fail! Go to this wiki page
and follow the instructions to make it work.
> We simply cannot avoid this if we continue to use a
> time-based release process. There will always be cases where we don't
> finish everything we'd like to.
But it ok to ship a crappy or not ready product as long as I created it.
> That is, it cannot
> if we ever want to recover marketshare and mindshare from other
> distributions (not to mention other/better OS's),
"we" are not competing with other distributions. That is just you
lennart and crew.
Here is a clue, making a better product will "recover" your precious
market and mind share. Telling people only you know what is best does not.
We're finally reaching a point where dialogue between parties is
becoming more constructive and less vitriolic. Please don't reduce
the usefulness of the conversation.
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