Tango quibbles - please write tickets so we can track them

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Janice Caron wrote:

> On 9/17/07, Alexander Panek <alexander.panek at brainsware.org> wrote:
>> I think that analogy limps massively. Books, as well as software, have a
> 
> Books, TV programs, movies, /anything/, it doesn't matter. ANYTHING
> which makes a claim on your spare time is something you have to decide
> whether or not you can afford that spare time.
> 
> Pick a TV program you don't like. Are you going to change the channel,
> or switch off and do something else entirely? Or are you going to join
> the film crew? If you don't like game shows, you switch off - you
> don't go and join the company that makes them to try to make them
> better? If you didn't like a particular movie, you just don't watch
> the sequel - you don't go and join the filmmaking crew and try to make
> the next one better. And if you read a book and discover you don't
> like it, then every one of us - even you - will simply put it down and
> not bother with it, rather than contact the author and explain how to
> write it better. That's not arrogant, it's just the flat reality that
> *consumers have a choice* of what they want to do with their leisure
> time.
> 
> Likewise, when someone shows me a programming library in which I have
> no interest, I just put it down. The /last/ thing I would do is get
> involved with making it. You expect me to get involved in creating
> something I don't like and in which I have no interest? That's absurd.
> The answer is no. That's not arrogant, that's just saying no.
> 
> I was asked to help. I said no, because I've only got so much free
> time, and I'd rather spend it doing other things. If you think that
> entitles you to call me arrogant, well, hey, I guess there's really no
> arguing with that is there?

I don't think it's arrogant to say no to help, but there is still a flaw in
your reasoning because with Tango, and most other open source packages, you
_can_ make a difference by helping. That you don't have the time or
inclination to do so, is completely fair :) As for myself, I think my time
spent on improving the various aspects of Tango are well spent, considering
that there never was any real room (I and many others did try) to spend
that time on Phobos. Even Walter sees this as the most natural thing in the
world, he knows very well that Phobos is neglected, especially compared to
the compiler itself.

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