Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (564 mails)

[Guido Berhoerster <gber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [2011-12-28 20:54]:
> On 28/12/11 16:46, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
> > * Cristian Rodríguez<crrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  [2011-12-28 19:05]:
> > Turning a deaf
> > ear to your customers' or users' preferences and use cases and
> > trying to force something down their throat through technical
> > means will invoke resistance and is ultimately doomed to failure.
>
> > Either people will be begrudged by this arrogance and simply
> > turn away or they will find creative technical means to work
> > around the limitations with results which are usually not too
> > pretty.  It's sort of what currently happens with GNOME 3 and
> > it's almost exactly the same when back in 2008 some Sun engineers
> > declared the new IPS packaging system on Solaris a "no scripting
> > zone", in fact the similarities in the sorrounding debates are
> > striking.
>
> Someone has to take decisions and those cannot please everybody,
> currently it works this way:
>
> Those who do the work, take decisions.

I don't dispute that developers are free to do whatever they want
with their projects, I just pointed out that certain decisions
and attitudes have the consequences that I described above.
-- 
Guido Berhoerster
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