Re: [opensuse] KDE3 Enthusiasts - neat opportunity for opensuse and others

On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 21:30 -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
Now, how about asking Novell to create a new mail list called
opensuse-kde3 for all you enthusiasts so that you can have your own
sand-box for KDE3? :-)
It's not like the current KDE list is overfull with posts on it.
I must say that I'm amazed with this friction between KED3.5 and 4.x.
Any commercial company would give body parts to have a customer base as
loyal to KDE3.5 that apparently exists, yet it appears that the
open-source model is willing to abandon that loyalty. We've all heard
the reasoning for abandoning KDE3.5 for "the new paradigm", and it
certainly makes some sense to me, but the fact remains that there are a
lot of "customers" that just don't like what they see in KDE 4.x.

False; you don't understand the nature of mail lists. There is no
evidence of 'lot of "customers"', there is evidence of a very vocal
group of undetermined size [that doesn't look that large to me].
Remember that web forums and mail lists *strongly* trend negative [and
toward the discontented; those without issues... *do not post*] and that
things like web site 'polls' are merely examples of
self-selected-demographic.

What is it about the open-source model that is happy as a clam to simply
tell that customer base to fsck off?

And they aren't "customers". What did they pay?

Speaking just for myself when a "customer" who I've never heard of [has
never contributed anything to my project] storms into a forum with a
demanding tone... I don't have any issues telling them to "fsck off".
Respect causes respect in kind - accusing developers of being stupid,
lazy, or callous isn't respectful [seeing as they gave you something for
nothing....]

And maybe, just maybe, someone who has invested man-years into a
code-base knows a little more something about it then a given
"customer". A "customer" who doesn't begin with that assumption is just
an idiot - because, of course, that's true.

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