Debian: contempt for "end user" values has to stop!"

[Ray Leventhal]

Scott Beamer wrote:
> That's the tile of this blog post[1]. The author makes some excellent 
> points.
> 
> 
> 
> [1] http://bit.ly/wNKEx (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/
> debian_contempt_end_user_values_has_stop)
> 
Scott Beamer wrote:
 > That's the tile of this blog post[1]. The author makes some excellent 
points.
 >
 >
 >
 > [1] http://bit.ly/wNKEx (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/
 > debian_contempt_end_user_values_has_stop)
 >
What the author of the blog fails to acknowledge is that free (as in 
coffee *and* free as in free/liberated) fonts, software, packages, 
distros - rely on the community to better them.
<rant>
Railing out at the packager or the package-manager paradigm is a waste. 
  The time it took to write that blog *should*, imnsho, have been spent 
on developing a fix to this problem which, while real, affects a minute 
portion of the community.

Then, being a good member of said community, the *fix* could have been 
posted for others to use.  No bitching, just a hero in the making.

The complaint that 'I'm not a developer, I can't do this' is hogwash. We 
do what we need to when we need to.  10 yrs ago I wasn't a programmer. 
I'd dabbled in dBase stuff back in the 80s, but would have never figured 
myself a web designer or PHP coder.  I'm both now.  Why? Because I found 
a *need* that I had to fill in my work.

Graphics layout are this troll's work.  That's *his* need.  *He* should 
fill it and not blame the GNU/Linux community, a given disto or update 
to same.
</rant>

Ok :)   I feel better.  *and* I'm down another 0.02 :))

-R


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