On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 09:01 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > I expect people who feel they are treated like crap to do one of two > things: > > 1. Get involved to try and make things better (I guess you could > argue you are doing this albeit in a really ineffective manner :) > 2. Move on to antoher project i was told early on, that it took an invite to get involved. > > If CentOS noticed a huge decline in users they might be concerned about > this. They haven't; you're probably the only one I've heard bringing > up this issue and honestly it sounds like you were the cause of the > problem. that may be your perception. perhaps you would want to look at the logs so you would know. > > This is not an issue for CentOS currently. too bad. > > > > > I would agree though, it sounds like RH is a better choice for your > > needs, and more specifically, a better fit for your method of > > interaction. > > > > You're not going to find many volunteers who react well to being cursed > > at or otherwise abused verbally. and users do not react well to being told rudely 'it will be ready when its ready', that is just rude. > > > > > > and you're not going to find too many people in business that want to ask a > > question and are blatently put off. > > > > You need to grasp that CentOS is *not* run like a business. It is a > project worked on by others, for free, in ther spare time, most of them > with technical interests. You need to approach it in this manner. > > You're going to get blown off if you come around acting like a paying > customer deserving of support when you haven't contributed anything > yourself persoanlly to the product. 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 ? > > This is open source etiquette. It differs from business etiquette > where you are more than welcoem to berate and yell and holler about > things because you're paying someone a lot of money. the etiquette is rudeness to promote open source? is this what you are saying? > > Ray > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080605/e7f54a7b/attachment-0005.html>