Mauriat M wrote:
On 5/15/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yep. If half of the people who are willing to discuss the nature of
Fedora in length step further to actually contribute that would make a
pretty big difference but alas folks are more interested in calling it
unstable or wanting the distribution to including proprietary software
by default.
Next time you want to complain ask yourself how much you have
contributed in anyway at all to a every growing collection of Free
software included in a distribution that you can get for free. That
includes a lot of work many of which is volunteer driven in maintaining
around 8000 packages, documentation, artwork, QA, release engineering,
infrastructure, marketing etc.
You can choose to help.
Must I contribute to expect a somewhat stable and useful general
purpose operating system?
It would be better if you would. You can choose to not contribute
anything back and only expect to get everything for free but if
everybody chooses to be selfish you wouldn't get what you are getting.
This is a ecosystem that relies folks investing resources like their own
time or money.
If you have the time to complain you have time to contribute. If you
don't find this system suitable find another one. It's not like there is
a death of choices. No point in constantly abusing the system while
relying on it.
Rahul
