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. > Nobody cares when you do something right; it's expected. Everybody > cares when you do something wrong, or too late, or not at all, and > they will make sure that everybody is aware of this. They will also > complain about how you are doing it to them. > They do not care about you, your habits, or your problems, and they > never will. All they care about is the result. They are intelligent > and analytical and they will notice everything, sooner or later. "They" == Andrew Suffield :) Michael