On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 09:19 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > 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? > > > > No, the etiquette is that you need to approach developer and volunteers > as just that -- people who are doing this in their spare time. Do not > be demanding, go the extra mile yourself ahead of time to seek answers > on your own, and give these folks the benefit of the doubt if they > don't act like support staff at RH; it isn't their job. i have a little familiarity with open source, perhaps more than noted, and i what i am seeing here is centos saying that since we're not paid, we dont care. i think there are many projects that would not want this image. sounds like failure to me. hence, i am not so sure this is anything to be proud of. anyway, time to move on. > > This part is on you, and is the only part you can control directly. I > know from experience that more often than not you'll get much more > helpful and open responses back if you use the above approach. > > HTH > 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/a619e348/attachment-0005.html>