Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 10:59:33 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup.exe sugestion/annoyance Message-ID: <20030521145933.GD1971@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 03:47:49PM +0100, Steve Fairbairn wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf-rcm@cygwin.com] >> Sent: 21 May 2003 15:33 >> To: cygwin@cygwin.com >> Subject: Re: Setup.exe sugestion/annoyance >> >> Primer on how not to get free software problems fixed: >> >> 1) Download free software. >> >> 2) Notice that the free software doesn't work exactly the way >> you want. >> >> 3) Assume that the reason the free software doesn't work the way you >> want it to is because someone is missing something very obvious. >> Do no research to prove that theory. Assume that you are the >> very first person to notice the problem and decide to scold >> the free software developers. >> >> 4) Send offended email. >> >> 5) Receive email from developer telling you why things work the way >> they do. >> >> 5) Respond in insulting fashion to the developer who >> volunteers time to >> work on free software. >> >> 6) Speculate, while doing no research, that the bug in the >> free software >> program is probably fixable by using a proprietary software product >> available for purchase for many $$$. >> >> 6) Suggest that bug in free software was purposely introduced. >> >> 7) Wait for problem to be fixed, basking in the warm >> knowledge that you've >> done everything possible to help the volunteer developers >> of the free >> software. >> > >Why isn't this is the FAQ? I've found usability bug in the FAQ that'd only >take the FAQ maintainer seconds to change, by loading it up in Microsoft >Word XP, copy and pasting this into it, making it produce new HTML, and >saving. > >What a crime against humanity this is. Ouch. I have a very stiff neck and laughing for twenty seconds doesn't help it at all. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/