5 Feb
2011
5 Feb
'11
5:27 p.m.
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Folderol <folderol(a)ukfsn.org> wrote:
I don't think it's users of a specific OS,
more of a case of extremely selfish
people who think the world owes them ... everything. They just don't seem to
connect with the idea of doing something for fun but making it available to
others with no specific commitment.
How sad it must be to have a mindset where your first thought is 'what do I get
for it' when doing anything.
in defense of CDM commenters, i don't think that this is the mindset
at all, really. i think its more like "look, 98.5% of all possible
users of this stuff do not run linux, so why would you release a cool
creative tool that only runs on a platform that almost nobody uses?"
*if* the percentages are roughly correct (and they likely are), then i
think its a reasonable question to ask. however, the questioner needs
to be able to deal with the answer being something along the lines of
"because i wanted to" or "because i didn't write it for all those
other people" or even "because i wanted other people who use the same
platform as me to have more cool tools" or perhaps even "because i
think its a better platform". i think its fine to ask the question,
but people have to accept the answer too.