Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

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On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Tom Horsley wrote:
>On Wed, 26 May 2010 14:56:31 -0400
>
>Máirín Duffy wrote:
>> There were multiple blog posts on the redesign posted to Planet Fedora
>> [1] (and syndicated to many other Linux & open source-related blog
>> planets) over a period of several months, as well as mentioned on Fedora
>> Weekly News [2], discussed on the Fedora websites mailing list,
>> logistics mailing list, and design mailing list.
>
>But not, of course, on the fedora users list I guess, the list where
>the folks who are actually going to use this stuff hang out.
>
+10

>The Vogons had their plans for the destruction of Earth on file in the
>galactic office on Alpha-Centauri too :-).

;-)
>
>> I appreciate your effort in trying to participate, but I hope you can
>> see how your feedback would easily be interpreted as non-constructive
>> and inflammatory. Especially when I gave you an example link to where
>> the design was posted last fall, and you reply that you wouldn't have
>> bothered to look at it. It makes it seem as if you are not really
>> interested in helping, only complaining.
>
>If Ford gave me an opportunity to look at their plans for redesigned
>controls in their new line of cars, I wouldn't bother to look at that
>either because I wouldn't think they would be idiotic enough to remove
>the brake pedal since, after all, the car will stop anyway when it
>hits something :-).
>
>Complaining after the fact is the only possible response available
>when something you couldn't imagine happening in your wildest dreams
>is foisted on you. You can't spend 24 hours a day trying to guess
>what cliques of developers are off planning the next disaster so
>you can attempt to constructively participate ahead of time and
>head them off.
>
+100

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