On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 14:37 +0200, Michael Krelin wrote: > > > > That was my thought as well. We (the developers) owe nothing to the > > community at large. We are volunteers, and if we want to treat Gentoo as > > our own personal toy (which we currently aren't), then so be it. > > > > Of course Gentoo owes to the community a lot. A lot of its progress, > progress of the applications included, etc. But it's not a matter of > obligation. Being nice to others is a nice thing to do and a way to look > better too. The opposite is... well, the opposite.
Well said... Remember that if we really didn't give a crap about the community, we wouldn't be writing open source software. If we didn't care about the users, we wouldn't release our software to them. We wouldn't have a bug tracker, forums, and all the other things that we do and maintain solely for the community. To phrase it in another manner that might make more sense, any given developer is going to be more interested in fixing/changing what is important or interesting to them than what some group of users wants them to fix/change. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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