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On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 09:01 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">I expect people who feel they are treated like crap to do one of two</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">things:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> 1. Get involved to try and make things better (I guess you could</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> argue you are doing this albeit in a really ineffective manner :)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> 2. Move on to antoher projec</FONT>t
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i was told early on, that it took an invite to get involved.
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">If CentOS noticed a huge decline in users they might be concerned about</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">this. They haven't; you're probably the only one I've heard bringing</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">up this issue and honestly it sounds like you were the cause of the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">problem.</FONT>
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that may be your perception. perhaps you would want to look at the logs so you would know.
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">This is not an issue for CentOS currently.</FONT>
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too bad.
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I would agree though, it sounds like RH is a better choice for your</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> needs, and more specifically, a better fit for your method of</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> interaction.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> You're not going to find many volunteers who react well to being cursed</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> at or otherwise abused verba</FONT>lly.
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and users do not react well to being told rudely 'it will be ready when its ready', that is just rude.
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> and you're not going to find too many people in business that want to ask a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> question and are blatently put off.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">You need to grasp that CentOS is *not* run like a business. It is a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">project worked on by others, for free, in ther spare time, most of them</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">with technical interests. You need to approach it in this manner.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">You're going to get blown off if you come around acting like a paying</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">customer deserving of support when you haven't contributed anything</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">yourself persoanlly to the product.</FONT>
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i do not perceive it as a paying customer, and i was not the one that brought that up. now that it has been brought up, what is the mission of CentOS ?
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">This is open source etiquette. It differs from business etiquette</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">where you are more than welcoem to berate and yell and holler about</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">things because you're paying someone a lot of money.</FONT>
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the etiquette is rudeness to promote open source? is this what you are saying?
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Ray</FONT>
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