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On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 04:20:37AM -0400, AndrewWatt2000@a... wrote: > market domination that it has. The open source community needs, if it > wants to be a serious competitor to Microsoft, to move on from this > self-centered lack of realism to a sustained, serious consideration > and response to the needs and perspectives of software users. I don't know why you think what you think about open source lack of user consideration. This seems not true *at all* to me. Maybe you just didn't had luck, or just want feature A and some people told you no and you are just [expletive deleted]. But your cold rant on XML-Dev has 0 chances to change any of this. If you want an open-source project to take your perspective in consideration, post to the list of that project with concrete proposals, anything else is just useless. And the fact that your viewpoint doesn't triumph doesn't mean either that the given project is ignoring software users prespective, it means it's ignoring *your* prespective, and sometime ignoring the perspective of some totally off-track technical person trying to teach you how to design APIs or user interfaces is the best thing an open-source project can do to protects its users. So take your frustration where it belongs, i.e. to the projects in question and stop your ranting about it here in a totally vague way, it's not useful, and doesn't make you look any greater. If you're really concerned about the way an open-source project does things, and want a better alternative, fork it off, make it your way and try to see if there are followers, you might be sucessful or not, at least you would put your acts in synch with what you say and act accordingly to the principles upon which open-source software works. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Network https://rhn.redhat.com/ veillard@r... | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/
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