21 Jan
2014
21 Jan
'14
2:19 p.m.
On Tuesday 21 January 2014 08:15:53 John Rigg did opine:
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:40:23PM +0000, Fons
Adriaensen wrote:
+1 John. Which is why, as I age, I try to always say thank you when I come
hat in hand asking for help. At 79 & still counting, I find myself doing
more and more of that.
Cheers, Gene
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
Required reading:
<http://culturalslagheap.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/elemental/>
Lady Nancy Astor:
"Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your coffee."
Winston Churchill:
"Nancy, if you were my wife, I'd drink it."
A pen in the hand of this president is far more
dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of
law-abiding citizens.
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 05:55:04AM +0000, Filipe
Coelho wrote:
I'm inclined to agree with Fons here. There seems to be a growing
culture of expecting Windows-style hand-holding for free software. In
the Windows (and Mac) world you pay money for this. I think it's
unreasonable to expect the same level of support from unpaid
developers. (If they have the time to do it that's great, but it
shouldn't be taken for granted).
John I think we should stop assuming releasing source
code is enough.
Enough for what ? Users who don't want to install from source
want packages made for the package manager of their distro,
which will take care of dependencies etc. You can't expcect a
developer to provide such packages for each and every distro.
I don't even provide them for the distro I use myself.