On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 14:38 +1000, Steffen Kluge wrote:
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 09:39 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
Right on. There's alot of this disconnect with Gnome "designers" and their constituency, which for some reason they don't seem to ask for advice. (???) I would even go so far as to say that this requires a large amount of fascism on the part of the "designers"; since in fact this is not about user choice, it's about "designer" choice. That smacks of a dictatorship, not a democracy; there's more of ulcer than understanding about it.
What on earth gave you the idea that free software development is a democracy?? If you contribute something valuable you have influence, if you only hold your hand open you have to take what you're given. No amount of whining in public mailing lists is going to change that.
Think about it.
Cheers Steffen.
You think about it. I don't require any more thought time on this subject. The purpose of software is people driven, therefore there will always be something of a democracy about it. Some devs listen to their userbase, some don't, the former is much like a representative democracy. This is why gnome bites and KDE doesnt, so take it or leave it.
LX