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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] kmail's disappearing uitilities and menu items?
From:       Jim Hitch <jim.hitch () btinternet ! com>
Date:       2007-05-13 10:17:52
Message-ID: 200705131117.52760.jim.hitch () btinternet ! com
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Okay guys, can we draw a line under this now? 

Lots of good points made, toys out of prams and stuff off chests. I think this 
thread should head elsewhere so that this list can get back to some mutual 
cooperation.

Jim

On Sunday 13 May 2007, Larry Howe wrote:
> On Friday 11 May 2007 15:12, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> > switch away from it to some other software entirely.
>
> Roy - please do! There's something vaguely hyopcritical about using
> someone's own product to criticize them. Well, it's more than just vague.
> Open source software didn't just come out of nowhere. It's a community
> effort. There are various ways you can help the community. You can be a
> beta tester. You can go through bugs in the bugzilla system and help the
> developers by locating and closing duplicates. You can visit kde.org and
> make a financial contribution. You can become a developer and implement
> whatever good ideas you have. There are a lot of ways you can help. But
> griping about minor perceived flaws in a major system, for which you paid
> nothing and contributed nothing, is not one of them.
>
> Maybe it's a sign of the maturity of open source software that people are
> starting to take it for granted and assume that it will always be there and
> will always do exactly what they want, but that's not the case. If you want
> an option where you have an 800 number where you can call and complain
> about various issues, then you have that option, but that's not how open
> source works, or has ever worked, or will ever work.
>
> Larry
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