On 26/09/11 19:38, Andrew Haley wrote:
On 09/22/2011 02:15 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> Alan Cox is exactly right that the users of Fedora products get them
> free and one can make a strong case that therefore Fedora developers
> have no responsibility to listen to user's complaints.
>
> However, the Fedora users provide a service to the ReHat company of
> identifying bugs that otherwise would show up to annoy the paying users
> of RedHat Enterprise .
>
> This is probably a weak argument to support the developers of Fedora
> software listening to its users but what is clear is the current
> situation leaves a bad taste in the mouths of the current Fedora
> user-base. Clearly developers can ignore our complaints, but I have no
> evidence that the paying Enterprise customers will be more tolerant of
> the strange direction that RedHat is taking.
This is all too vague for me to understand. What are you talking about?
Andrew.
Some say that the new Fedora GUI is unhelpful and difficult to use,
preferring a simpler desktop.
This resulted in a discussion touching on the developers responsibility
to users, if any.
Roger