Why Fedora ?

[Derek Martin]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:33:48PM -0500, Robert Locke wrote:
> I've been trying to ignore this thread, but Derek,
> 
> Next time try clicking on the link that Rahul provided (before
> assuming), which just to repeat was:

Well, I don't mean to be rude, but simply put, no.  If one were to
follow every link that someone posted in a thread they were
participating in, they would never leave the computer.  There would be
time for nothing else in the day.

If you want people to read links that you post, it would be helpful if
you provided some clue as to what information is there, and/or why you
want them to look at it.  If you don't want to do that, fine... but
you shouldn't expect that people will necessarily follow your links
either.  

It doesn't take a lot of effort...  if Rahul had only said, "Here's a
list of ways you can get involved without writing code:"  That would
have been enough.  And, having been a member of the free software
community for a very long time, that would have told me:

  - enough to avoid making irrelevant comments, even without looking
    at the link
  - that I don't need to look at the link, because I'm already well
    aware of the many ways to contribute.

> You might notice that the "community" needs help with more than just
> programming....  

Of course I'm well aware of that.  But I think providing feedback on a
community website is worthwhile.  Perhaps it's not as useful as
submitting a bug report, but at least some members of the development
community need to be tuned into what the user community is thinking
and saying, so somebody should be monitoring the user's lists.  And
I'm sure they are.  ;-)

> Take a look at the above page.  From your other posts, I'm guessing
> that you have some talent that would fit quite nicely in a couple of
> those areas....

Thanks for the nice complement.  :)

-- 
Derek D. Martin
http://www.pizzashack.org/
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