Quoting Nick Murtagh (nickm at go2.ie):
> I think the "bunch of whiners" comment refers to people who were
> complaining in a generally unhelpful way without offering suggestions
> or patches.
People who offer specific suggestions and/or patches get ignored, too:
_Experienced_ users get told that they're obviously not speaking for the
target userbase, and therefore their views are irrelevant to the
project. On the flip side, _inexperienced_ users get told they're
unqualified.
One side of Jeff Waugh: "I'm not expecting you to be happy with my
answers. You're not the target audience." The other side of Jeff Waugh:
"When you work on software as widely deployed as GNOME, you have to
filter noise very aggressively. Non-coders who think they know better
than experienced coders are, more often than not, noise."
More at:
http://zgp.org/pipermail/linux-elitists/2004-January/008588.html
Yossarian: "That's some catch, that Catch-22."
(Scary exercise: Login to RHEL and do "cd /etc; grep -r metacity *".)
> In other words, it was the correct decision for their target market.
Ah, "their target market". {cough} Naturally.
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