Comments on: Pointing out the obvious http://www.sharms.org/blog/2007/04/pointing-out-the-obvious/ Life, Linux and Technology Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:40:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Esben Mose Hansen http://www.sharms.org/blog/2007/04/pointing-out-the-obvious/comment-page-1/#comment-461 Esben Mose Hansen Tue, 01 May 2007 19:29:58 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=96#comment-461 What Erik says is a very common misconception, so maybe it is worth a few words. Myth: OS coders hates ordinary users and don't want them in the project. There is so much work that anyone can do and no one does which would help the projects immensely, and believe me, the help would be very welcome. Myth: OS coders spend all their time doing polishing and adding new features instead of fixing my bugs. Wrong. OS coders do whatever they please. I do not know why it should be any different. If you want support you can whine at, it is available from Canonical. Myth: OS lacks clear vision and strategy. Au contraire, OS tends to have very visionary leaders. This still doesn't stop anyone coming in and doing their thing. But remember, this is free in a sense: It is not as if those coders would implement that vision anyway. And sometimes, some of those odd projects turn out to be quite useful (like the firefox split of mozilla, for instance), Myth: Linux will never become mainstream until blahblahblah *Sigh* What Erik says is a very common misconception, so maybe it is worth a few words.

Myth: OS coders hates ordinary users and don’t want them in the project.

There is so much work that anyone can do and no one does which would help the projects immensely, and believe me, the help would be very welcome.

Myth: OS coders spend all their time doing polishing and adding new features instead of fixing my bugs.

Wrong. OS coders do whatever they please. I do not know why it should be any different. If you want support you can whine at, it is available from Canonical.

Myth: OS lacks clear vision and strategy.

Au contraire, OS tends to have very visionary leaders. This still doesn’t stop anyone coming in and doing their thing. But remember, this is free in a sense: It is not as if those coders would implement that vision anyway. And sometimes, some of those odd projects turn out to be quite useful (like the firefox split of mozilla, for instance),

Myth: Linux will never become mainstream until blahblahblah

*Sigh*

]]> By: erik http://www.sharms.org/blog/2007/04/pointing-out-the-obvious/comment-page-1/#comment-460 erik Tue, 01 May 2007 09:00:33 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=96#comment-460 Being aware of everything is not enough, you should focus on fixing the correct ones if your resources are thin. Which you are not. I see a lot of useless re-inventing the wheel and fine-tuning/polishing systems that should be replaced completely. In other words, you lack completely strategic leadership. Being aware of everything is not enough, you should focus on fixing the correct ones if your resources are thin. Which you are not. I see a lot of useless re-inventing the wheel and fine-tuning/polishing systems that should be replaced completely. In other words, you lack completely strategic leadership.

]]> By: admin http://www.sharms.org/blog/2007/04/pointing-out-the-obvious/comment-page-1/#comment-459 admin Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:01:21 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=96#comment-459 <b>"sorry but not all users are coder"</b> - I didn't say they have to be <b>Erik</b>: I never said anything of the sort. My point is sitting outside and saying how I have a shitty car in no way makes it better. As for thinking outside the box, we have over 30,000 open bugs. We are generally aware of almost every problem people refer to, but just can't fix every single issue. Ordinary users can do a ton, just by bug triage and documentation, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributeToUbuntu “sorry but not all users are coder” – I didn’t say they have to be

Erik: I never said anything of the sort. My point is sitting outside and saying how I have a shitty car in no way makes it better. As for thinking outside the box, we have over 30,000 open bugs. We are generally aware of almost every problem people refer to, but just can’t fix every single issue.

Ordinary users can do a ton, just by bug triage and documentation, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributeToUbuntu

]]> By: djouallah mimoune http://www.sharms.org/blog/2007/04/pointing-out-the-obvious/comment-page-1/#comment-458 djouallah mimoune Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:44:57 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=96#comment-458 sorry but definitively my English suck, what i meant is how an ordinary users(like me) can improve open source software, if we can't code !!!! and just don't be upset bye all those Linux zealot, as we are expecting a lot from open source, sometimes we get so frustrated by missing features. sorry but definitively my English suck, what i meant is how an ordinary users(like me) can improve open source software, if we can’t code !!!!
and just don’t be upset bye all those Linux zealot, as we are expecting a lot from open source, sometimes we get so frustrated by missing features.

]]> By: erik http://www.sharms.org/blog/2007/04/pointing-out-the-obvious/comment-page-1/#comment-457 erik Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:30:10 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=96#comment-457 The "if you don't code you're not eligible to be part of our jet society culture" is the biggest reason why Linux has still years before it can be a serious contender. Not everyone codes.. Most often the people who do are at the same time piss-poor in thinking outside the box and seeing what makes a good overall product. In case that was the reason for your blog post, please think it over again.. You're terribly wrong and hurting the outcome. The “if you don’t code you’re not eligible to be part of our jet society culture” is the biggest reason why Linux has still years before it can be a serious contender. Not everyone codes.. Most often the people who do are at the same time piss-poor in thinking outside the box and seeing what makes a good overall product.

In case that was the reason for your blog post, please think it over again.. You’re terribly wrong and hurting the outcome.

]]> By: djouallah mimoune http://www.sharms.org/blog/2007/04/pointing-out-the-obvious/comment-page-1/#comment-456 djouallah mimoune Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:25:06 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=96#comment-456 sorry but not all users are coder, so all we have is just to moan sorry but not all users are coder, so all we have is just to moan

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