Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 18:34:24 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New FreeBSD Logo Message-ID: <C087E2B0.DB84%ceri@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <4461F57D.502@pixelhammer.com>
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On 10/5/06 15:15, "DAve" <dave.list@pixelhammer.com> wrote: > http://pixelhammer.com/aw_jeez.jpg > > This has gone too far. Searching shows that the FreeBSD questions list > had mention of this over a year ago. > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2005-February/076063. > html > > To be blunt about it, you and everyone else had their chance. My wife, a > designer, knew FreeBSD had a logo contest and she wouldn't know FreeBSD > from a martian if it were not for my T-shirt. > > Anyone could have contributed. But like beta testing, most simply > ignored the request to participate, preferring to wait until someone > else did the hard work and made the tough decisions, then chose to bitch > when the result was not want they wanted. It's apathy. Yea, I'm more > than annoyed and this has been a long time coming. > > How many people actually keep a development server running just to help > open source developers test patches or updates, even when those patches > and updates do not affect them? > > How many donate to the souls who write the tools we use every day? Or do > they just read the maillists when they need help, never offering to help > others, and then get an attitude when the help they request doesn't > arrive? A lot. > > I constantly dog my employers to donate, let me have work time to help > out on lists, purchase the books (Mailscanner and Rails) that help the > developers, keep a development box for testing. They complain even > though they could not compete in the market place had they been required > to purchase licenses for all the software they use. > > The Internet is the industry that open source built, and it has created > a society of hand out junkies who think they should get everything their > way, for free, right now. > > This job isn't fun anymore. Hear, hear. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere
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