Link: Yahoo caught censoring Open Sauce

[Vadim Peretokin]

On Feb 3, 2008 10:22 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> Vadim Peretokin wrote:
>
> > I can't quite afford to fund that for the entire Pidgin userbase
> (196,235+
> > for Ubuntu alone). :/
> >
> > If there was some pledge fund setup, I'd gladly contribute though.
>
> See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bounties.
>
> > I got sick after reading this part:" For the last time, if you are not a
> > Pidgin developer or patch writer, *DO NOT WASTE OUR TIME BY COMMENTING
> ON
> > THIS TICKET.". This says two things to me - given that Pidgin developers
> > clearly don't want to implement this, since they see no need for this,
> > they're also refusing to let users come up with a solution.
>
> It says nothing of the sort.  It says they're getting tired of reading
> from
> everybody telling them that they're not doing their "job" by implementing
> a
> specific feature.  Nothing is gained from further additions to the ticket
> unless they actually include patches.


So it's a l33t coders only place, no users (the people who want, need, and
are asking for this) are allowed to help?

That at least could've been used as a place to organize an effort to do so
(and there was one despite the protests from the developers, apparently).



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