Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:37:24 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@chello.cz> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <underway@comcast.net> Cc: Peter Schultz <pmes@bis.midco.net> Subject: Re: To the Armchair Directors Message-ID: <20040315203724.GA77608@isis.wad.cz> In-Reply-To: <beptbeatot.tbe@mail.comcast.net> References: <20040315134745.1eb201f4.manlix@demonized.net> <20040315125710.GK797@camelot.theinternet.com.au> <20040315140153.30348b1e.manlix@demonized.net> <xzpekrugsor.fsf@dwp.des.no> <4055B648.3000306@bis.midco.net> <beptbeatot.tbe@mail.comcast.net>
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# underway@comcast.net / 2004-03-15 09:47:30 -0800:
> Peter Schultz <pmes@bis.midco.net> writes:
>
> > Don't piss off the programmers! ;-)
> >
> > If you're not a programmer, restrain yourself from suggesting how easy
> > this or that thing would be to do. These guys simply *do not* need
> > your "input". Remember that this is *open source* and that if you
> > think something is worth doing that nobody else is working on, you
> > need to take on the project yourself.
>
> The above sort of user-off-putting attitude seems inappropriate [...]
Perhaps it's just me, but I read the Peter's email as a
good-hearted, almost tongue-in-cheek warning: "careful, these guys
tend to get pissed off, you might get burnt".
As opposed to des' comments in the "proxy user missing" thread.
Or this one.
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