I think the responses can be better understood if we reframe them into another context. What the original poster did is the equivalent of asking a group of commodore fans to help work on designing the next falcon :-) When you look at it like that it is much easier to understand the responses ;-)
2009/11/15 Skythra <skyt...@gmail.com>: > Yeah i'll be unsubscribing from this mailing list after reading this > particular topic. This is a community bent on some form of elitism for > god knows what purpose. Justify it how you may, I feel repulsed by > people's responses here. > > I'm not agreeing with the opening poster or his methods, but lets > break down some people here: > > Dave Hall - A person who clearly never ever considered ever helping > out on this project went on to criticize it. Why? God knows. He found > points he didn't like and made them out to be critical flaws. If the > conditions don't suit you, just don't do it. You don't need to go on > some self gratified justification about how much better your time is > worth then contributing. And he snidely ends in "good luck". > > Bwright - A person who never considered ever helping out, but still > felt like his opinion on the project was somehow necessary too. He > then puts words in the mouth of the opening poster, interpreting > whatever he felt like to help justify his position on the matter. He > also suggests that the poster is arrogant, but I'm not so sure he read > what he wrote. The same could be easily said to him. Although > ignorance is probably what I'd choose. There's a lot of work in > creating a distribution. I'm not so sure it's something that you'd > make yourself and then ask for help. Rather it's something you look > for people of similar interest and gauge the viability of it as a > project. Your contribution to the linux community I can see is about > as deep as a few posts a week on a public forum. As a member of the > linux community, i thank you for your generous time in using the > community's product. > > Aryan - A incredibly insightful person who is more than happy enough > to get caught up over grammer and spelling rather then contribute > meaningfully to the topic. While criticizing the opening poster, i > wonder if he himself considered whether or not his time was actually > assisting or not. > > > Anyway i know i havn't exactly given a lot so you're probably not sad > to see me go, but on the other hand I feel terrible about sharing the > good word about ubuntu and suggesting to others to join in, even so > far as to install it on both parents PC's and laptops, my significant > others laptop and several friends PCs. I'm loathe to think about them > becoming involved in this community, which has a superior "apple" > feeling. > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au > -- Jonathan Swift - "May you live every day of your life." - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jonathan_swift.html -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
