Privacy and passwords

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:36:32AM +0000, Keith A. Milner wrote:
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> This is a community, not customer-supplier relationship. You have part-share 
> in Gnucash (if you want it) and can influence it's direction (if you want 
> to). One way to influence this direction is to make feature suggestions, but 
> the current dev team have limited time, and their own priorities. You can 
> argue that their priorities are wrong (as you have) but expect disagreement. 
> That's all part of being in a community.
> 
> Remember, the developers on Gnucash are largely doing it because they have 
> certain requirements they want or need themselves. They will have their own 
> priority list. you cannot expect one person's view to override that priority 
> list. In fact even if a hundred people have the same view, that developer may 
> still not change his/her priority list. Remember, the dev has no boss to 
> report to, no shareholders to please. They do it to please themselves. In a 
> lot of cases this also means pleasing those in the community with similar 
> requirements.
> 
> You make a lot of claims about why you think this particular feature is so 
> important. From the responses you've had, your view is in the minority in 
> this community. Of course you can make claims about "what normal people" do, 
> but the reaility is many of us are "normal people" and what you describe is 
> not what we do.
> 
> I repeat again, this is an Open Source community. Most of the rest of this 
> community do not appear to want this feature. If this was commercial 
> software, you would be stck. It's not, and you have some choices:
> 
> 1. Live with it
> 2. Develop the feature yourself and contribute it
> 3. Flounce off in a huff
> 
> If you don't want to be part of this community, that's fair enough. I'm sure 
> the shareholders won't lose any sleep.

well put.

A
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