[nylug-talk] I'm a Gentoo convert.

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Mon, 2007-03-05, Ruebn Safir wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:59:54PM -0800, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> > The reality is that the software is out there. for the most part it's
> > free and as long as you don't get pissy with the author they'll help
> > you as much as they can (deferring to the distro when they've
> > broken/fixed something). 
> 
> Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't and sometimes they tell you
> that the code is the documents and sometimes they take the attitude that if
> you can't understand the code that you essentially don't deserve to use
> the product.

<completely off-topic>

That is usually because said person has expressed strong opinions on how
the software should operate, usually on a mailinglist or on /. or
something like that. This is often, but not always, accompanied by the
mention that the person doesn't know how to code and / or has no time to
do it like this him(/her)self and thus just bitches off on the persons
who actually do the work with no actual benefit to anyone.

I.o.w., it's usually a good idea to be (at least moderately) happy with
what you get or to be ready to change it. _You_ (or, more accurately,
_we_) are this movement.

Ronald