From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs)
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:39:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85wthftsme.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m24q4j364i.fsf@Rothar.local
Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> writes:
> If proponents of free software ever expect to have their products in
> the mainstream and not just the province of geeks, then they had
> better
Why should I be bothered about the mainstream? Why should I applaud
moves that focus improving software only on non-free systems? There
is absolutely nothing for me in that.
I have nothing to gain from my software being useful only to
mainstream users of proprietary systems, and so I certainly not at all
"had better" do anything in order to have people working on stuff that
is of no benefit for me.
> learn the value of good customer service, and of good interface
> design and human useability.
If you want to place demands on software developers, you better offer
some recompensation. Other than that, you get what they are in the
mood to deliver.
> And we might as well treat each other with civility rather than
> disdain as a good way to develop that attitude.
Feel free to do so.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-03 15:20 Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs) David Reitter
2006-01-03 15:34 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-03 16:01 ` David Reitter
2006-01-03 16:58 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-03 19:58 ` David Reitter
[not found] ` <mailman.21285.1136317245.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-01-03 20:43 ` Tim McNamara
2006-01-03 21:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-01-03 21:35 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-04 12:40 ` david.reitter
2006-01-04 13:28 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-04 13:56 ` david.reitter
2006-01-04 15:09 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <mailman.21292.1136323111.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-01-04 0:10 ` Tim McNamara
2006-01-04 0:31 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-04 2:30 ` Tim McNamara
2006-01-04 2:44 ` Jay Belanger
2006-01-04 23:50 ` Tim McNamara
2006-01-05 0:39 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-01-05 6:59 ` Tim McNamara
2006-01-05 7:23 ` Jay Belanger
2006-01-05 13:15 ` david.reitter
2006-01-05 13:56 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-06 11:08 ` david.reitter
2006-01-06 12:40 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-01-06 14:16 ` David Reitter
[not found] ` <mailman.120.1136557103.26925.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-01-06 15:23 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-06 12:55 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-05 13:03 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-05 14:10 ` Tim McNamara
2006-01-05 14:26 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-05 21:52 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-01-05 22:19 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-05 23:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-01-05 23:49 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-06 0:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-01-06 11:07 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2006-01-06 11:36 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-06 12:26 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
[not found] ` <mailman.26.1136502144.26925.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-01-06 11:23 ` david.reitter
2006-01-05 15:55 ` Chong Yidong
2006-01-05 19:15 ` Luis O. Silva
[not found] ` <mailman.16.1136497693.26925.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-01-05 23:23 ` Tim McNamara
2006-01-06 0:17 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-06 21:01 ` Tim McNamara
2006-01-06 21:22 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-07 4:41 ` Tim McNamara
2006-01-07 9:48 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-08 7:34 ` Joe Bush
2006-01-08 10:29 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-10 6:01 ` Joe Bush
2006-01-10 7:03 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-10 14:01 ` Sean Sieger
2006-01-06 2:58 ` Luis O. Silva
[not found] ` <mailman.42.1136512036.26925.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-01-06 11:32 ` david.reitter
2006-01-07 10:02 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-08 6:05 ` david.reitter
2006-01-06 21:09 ` Tim McNamara
2006-01-06 21:42 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-06 21:55 ` Paul D. Smith
2006-01-06 22:02 ` Sean Sieger
2006-01-06 22:27 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-01-07 1:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-01-07 2:03 ` Luis O. Silva
2006-01-07 0:56 ` Björn Lindström
[not found] ` <mailman.209.1136595503.26925.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-01-07 1:13 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <mailman.183.1136585095.26925.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-01-07 5:00 ` Tim McNamara
[not found] ` <mailman.208.1136595203.26925.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-01-07 5:01 ` Tim McNamara
[not found] <mailman.21240.1136295385.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-01-03 14:15 ` David Kastrup
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2006-01-03 13:34 David Reitter
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