* Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@opensuse.org> [2011-12-28 20:54]:
On 28/12/11 16:46, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
* Cristian Rodríguez<crrodriguez@opensuse.org> [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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org