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Wulf C. Krueger wrote: |
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> On Monday, 21. January 2008 19:19:12 Steve Long wrote: |
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>> And when 90% say they don't like the way they get treated by Gentoo |
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>> devs, there is a real issue. |
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> "The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with |
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> the average voter." - Winston Churchill |
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> s/voter/user/ |
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Churchill also said democracy is the worst form of government: apart from |
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all the others. |
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He also questioned why anyone should worry about Arabs being gassed in |
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Mesopotamia, so maybe you can just speak for yourself; would you prefer to |
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live under Saddam, Amin or Hitler than a democratic government? |
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>> > That being said; talking to users who know what they are doing |
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>> > (doubly so when they know more than me) is a delight and I'm |
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>> > generally happy to take the time to respond. If there was some way |
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>> > to aggregate user complaints into concrete problem sets I'm all ears. |
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>> Votes. Require 75% majority from users if you want. |
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> No, most of those users do exactly that: They *use* what *we*, the Gentoo |
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> developers, provide. They can become developers easily enough and then |
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> they may vote all they want. |
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Yeah but antarus was asking about "aggregating user complaints into concrete |
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problem sets." How would you do that? |
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> And they can always vote with their feet - on their way out. Gentoo is |
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> about choice and one such choice can be to leave. |
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Yeah thanks for that contribution: really moved the debate forward. Don't |
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slam the door on your way out ;) |
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