Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/12/29/13:42:40
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 07:17:47PM -0600, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>> Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>> Open-source works by scratching your itch, not by getting someone
>>> else to scratch it for you.
>> Actually getting someone else to scratch that itch sometimes does work!
> Right! And, the perfect way to have the itch scratched is to claim
> that you know better than everyone else, imply that people don't care
> about the end-user experience, assert that you won't even bother
> submitting a patch because it would be automatically rejected for no
> good reason, rail about flaws in open source, ignore patient attempts
> to explain how things work, and never give up in the face of logical
> arguments, relying instead on repeating all of the above ad infinitum.
>
> This technique is, apparently, a sure-fire way to get someone to do
> something for you. We're just still in the ad infinitum stage. As soon
> as that stage is over, someone will surely get to work on this crucial
> patch.
I was being funny (and I did have a smiley though I don't see it in the
quote). You are apparently being sarcastic.
No that is not the perfect way as you describe, sarcasm aside. There are
ways to be gently persuasive ya know. Indeed often times just bringing
up a technical topic, even through a raging argument, spurs creative
solutions and engineers being what they are often get motivated to find
that solution (though perhaps not this bunch...;-)
BTW That last bit was intended to be a joke.
--
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
Did ya hear? They took the word gullible out of the dictionary!
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