Re: Wayland Is Coming

On Fri, 24 May 2024 03:40:31 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Wed, 15 May 2024 07:18:07 -0000 (UTC), Muttley wrote:
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I have little time for the "If you don't like it then do your own
version or else just suck it up".

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And yet you have plenty of time for complaining about how bad things are,
that other people are taking the trouble to produce for free.

Oh do fuck off. As I said, I've written open source and I've had people
emailing me about bugs and improvements. I don't tell them to shove it and go
write their own if they don't like what I've done. I take their criticism
on board and improve my code.

Why do you think so many companies have panels that check out their
products and give feedback?

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“If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a
faster horse.”
  -- not quite Henry Ford

You really don't believe in feedback at all do you. You seem to think the
coder is god and users should be ignored. I bet you're fun to work with.

OSS has many advantages but one disadvantage is that unlike a commercial
operation it can't go out of business no matter how shit the product ...
want to.

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First of all, “Open Source” does not preclude “commercial”. And
secondly,
isn’t your complaint about “can’t go out of business” somewhat at odds
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with your whining about “zealots deciding that X is for the bin”?

We can add your inability to differentiate between deprecation and going bust
as another of your faults.