Paul W. Frields wrote:
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.
I respectfully disagree sir.