On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 02:27, Steffen Kluge wrote: > On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 00:19 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > We contribute by using the software. > > Only if you submit bug reports and feature request. Bitching in forums > is not contributing. That's not generally true. For many software projects the developers are interested and active on the related mailing list and pay attention to user comments. This just doesn't happen to be one of them - and perhaps reasonably so since fedora is more a packaging effort and not focused on a specific program. On the other hand, at least some of this thread is about default settings that would best be set in the distribution packaging and let as an option in the base programming. That is, the coders should permit all reasonable options and the distributions should tune defaults to their user's preferences. Saying that free software doesn't have to cater to the user's whims is fine and true enough until you start thinking of free software as a usable replacement for the commercial versions. At that point it has to compete in every way instead of just being good enough for people willing to adjust to the way the coder liked to do things. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
