On Sat, August 8, 2009 8:44 pm, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Marko A. Jennings wrote: >> On Sat, August 8, 2009 4:04 pm, Lanny Marcus wrote: >>> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Robert<lists07 at abbacomm.net> wrote: >>> <snip> >>> >>>> please stop poking the bears... ;-> >>>> >>>> it isn't productive and many of you that are critical of CentOS and >>>> the >>>> people running it should just move on and go away as asked >>> +1 How easy it is to criticize people who have put in a >>> tremendous amount of hours, without pay, working on the CentOS >>> project. There is always room for improvement, but the criticism from >>> those who have not put in the hours over the past years is not >>> deserved. >> >> Lanny, >> >> Your statement implies that people that have not contributed to a >> certain >> goal cannot possibly have a good suggestion. Following that line of >> thought, we should all shut up and let our respective governments do >> whatever they please because most of us have not been public servants. >> >> And even if the suggestion (or criticism, as lots of suggestions have >> been >> labeled as of lately) is not valid, there are kinder and more polite >> ways >> of responding to them than those we have experienced in this thread. >> >> Marko >> >> Following that line of thought, we should all shut up and let our >> respective governments do whatever > > CentOS is not a government or a Democracy ... it was not designed to be. > It is a product that we produce for people to use or not use. > > They get to choose to participate in the mailing lists, the forums, etc.> > They get to choose to donate money or servers or bandwidth to the project. > > They do NOT get to tell us what to build, when to build it, how to use > donated resources, etc. Just like I don't get to login to your servers > and do what I want when you use CentOS. Where exactly have I said, or even implied that? All I have tried to convey is that when people offer suggestions, they ought to be considered and answered in a polite manner. As I said before, it's not what is being said, but rather how. Do we agree on this?