[Novalug] Disimprovement (was: php vuln. web pages)
American Dave Kline
novalug@soupy.org
Sun May 20 11:39:31 EDT 2012
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 09:58:16AM -0500, Beartooth wrote:
> On Sat, 19 May 2012, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
>
> > it is frustrating to me that "advances" in computer languages
> > often seem to result in making older creations obselete for no
> > obvious to me except to increase the complexity of the program
> > or web page or whatever. [...]
>
> You have lots of company. Quite a few long-time
> subscribers to the list Gmane calls fedora.general have been
> opting out of Gnome3 in favor of xfce.
In short, "can't stop progress". Strongly opinionated persons like
myself that doggedly cling to a certain way of life are fine -- if we're
swimming with the current.
There's a general disdain for people that say "Patches welcome." That
said, in Free/Open software it's a true meritocracy. You really can
submit patches, you really can fork the software. In the case of Gnome
3, you can even run in fallback-mode for a Gnome 2 experience.
I don't think people should be dismissed if they have differing
opinions. There is a huge difference between opinions and work.
There's a shortage of the latter.
Best regards,
-A. Dave
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