On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > Spike Turner wrote: >> R P Herrold wrote: >> >>> yada, yada, grumble, mumble >> >> You know after all this time the CentOS frontpage >> is still showing out of date info. You and Ralph >> could have stopped wasting time and simply edited >> the link to 4.7 instead of 4.4 as is the case now. >> >> Is the "C" in CentOS supposed to be "Community" or >> "Communist"? Maybe "T" from "Totalitarian" would be more >> appropriate? >> >> Spike. > > It is not about you ... please stop bring a complete ass. > > I edit the CentOS main page ... and you know what, there are only so > many hours in a day, where I have to do $work so I can eat and pay for > my house, as well as spend 40-60 hours a week on a free project so you > can have a free operating system that you do not appreciate. So that > you can then tell me that I do not do enough things for free to suit > your taste ... you know what ... i do not give a flying F$$$ what you > think. I do not care at all ... not one tiny little bit. Nope, nada, > don't care ... I CAN'T HEAR YOU ... LA LA LA LA > > The main CentOS page is there to explain the product and provide links, > it would be quite nice if we had a sugar daddy like feodra ... it would > also be nice if we had 1500 people who would do the web page updates, > but you know what ... that is not what we have. We are not Debian or > Fedora with thousands of developers or dollars. We are a group of 10-20 > active developers who care about the code, the ISOs and the trees that > we distribute. The main website is not our major concern, though we > would like it to be up2date, and did try to update it. > > If you don't like it .. GREAT .. please move to another distro that has > more tolerance for whining, non-appreciative, 12 year-old antics. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes I believe Johnny's words were very well chosen, accurate, excellent and to the point. He and the other CentOS Developers should know how much 99% of the CentOS user base appreciate their hard work, time and dedication to this project. Very rare for us to see Johnny respond like this and he was correct to do this. I don't think I have ever seen him write something like that before. How easy it is to be critical and call people "Communists", on a public, technical mailing list.