On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 03:07:40PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 03:49:26PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 02:23:43PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > What you will encounter in Debian, and free software development in > > > general, is nothing like you will encounter in the mundane > > > world. There will be an endless stream of accusations and > > > recriminations from other Debian developers, from upstream developers, > > > and from users, who will turn out to be the single most stupid and > > > ungrateful group of people you will ever encounter. > > > > Your experience does not match the experience of the rest of us. > > Funny how so many people disagree with you publically and repeatedly. Expanding upon that: I was in no sense talking about my experience at any point in that mail. As a Discordian, I am essentially immune to most of it and therefore don't remember it; I simply *do not care* what other people say about me. Rather, I was summarising my observations of the rest of the project. What I described is something that people like to complain about a lot (but most have more sense than to suggest that it can or should change). It is difficult to read any long thread on a Debian list without finding somebody complaining about it. A fair number of developers don't notice it, presumably because they aren't really bothered by it. That's consistent with what I said and a reasonable position to take. Most of the rest do notice it, but aren't *hugely* bothered by it. It's simply not relevant to their motivation for working on <whatever>. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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