[OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

[Alan Evans]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Oh yes, for a great example of how well gnome developers respond
> to negative feedback check out this bugzilla:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541
>
> Every once in a while I go back and re-read it just for the
> entertainment value :-).

I remember that bugzilla from when it was current. It's is an absolute classic!

And, sadly, it exemplifies perfectly the attitudes I recall when I
frequented the gnome mailing list. "You don't know anything because
you never did any formal studies of 'typical' users."

I'm also reminded of this closer-to-home classic:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-May/372990.html

-Alan