Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:14:09 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java For Firefox Message-ID: <19363.27281.684199.469796@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20100319062247.7068afff@scorpio.seibercom.net> References: <4B9A4C65.4040606@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <970380131003171157m104953fen9f99e82823f564b@mail.gmail.com> <201003180950.04627.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> <20100318062151.7791fdbc@scorpio.seibercom.net> <20100318113348.281f2de5@ernst.jennejohn.org> <970380131003180354n37bf379ej9b17aab91a1c130@mail.gmail.com> <19362.8135.173250.410907@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <970380131003180713v89c630cucbe506dbba19eb25@mail.gmail.com> <4BA2C4E0.1050805@FreeBSD.org> <20100319062247.7068afff@scorpio.seibercom.net>
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Jerry writes:
> >People who provide suggestions on how things _should_ be
> >without being able to help make them that way shouldn't be
> >surprised when they get a possibly negative response. Both
> >parties would be better served by ignoring such comments altogether.
>
> So, what you are inferring is that before an individual makes a
> suggestion for an improvement, modification or whatever in a
> product, they should be fully capable of instigating that
> change/modification themselves. Is that correct?
That's not what I, and seemingly others, read.
There's a difference between:
"FreeBSD doesn't have this {feature, (working) port}. I
really wish it did, and I think there's more people than you
realize looking for it."
hopefully followed by:
"What can I do to help?"
and what I remember of the original post, which came across as:
"FreeBSD doesn't have X? Do you not realize how important X
is? Bunch of losers. Fix it, or I'm outta here."
and - seen that way - drew a predictable and quite human
reaction. Especially when the poster seems to be somewhat more
clueful than someone who is trying FreeBSD becuase "My geek friends
said I should use Linux.".
Robert Huff
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