On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 14:38 +1000, Steffen Kluge wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 09:39 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > Right on. There's alot of this disconnect with Gnome "designers" and > > their constituency, which for some reason they don't seem to ask for > > advice. (???) I would even go so far as to say that this requires a > > large amount of fascism on the part of the "designers"; since in fact > > this is not about user choice, it's about "designer" choice. That > > smacks of a dictatorship, not a democracy; there's more of ulcer than > > understanding about it. > > What on earth gave you the idea that free software development is a > democracy?? If you contribute something valuable you have influence, if > you only hold your hand open you have to take what you're given. No > amount of whining in public mailing lists is going to change that. > > Think about it. > > Cheers > Steffen. You think about it. I don't require any more thought time on this subject. The purpose of software is people driven, therefore there will always be something of a democracy about it. Some devs listen to their userbase, some don't, the former is much like a representative democracy. This is why gnome bites and KDE doesnt, so take it or leave it. LX -- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. -- Proverbs, 26:5 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
