so +1.
Thanks.

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 04:07:33PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> While his rant is about a year old, I wonder if things have improved for
> him?
>
> When he discusses GNOME Shell, etc., perhaps what he doesn't realize is
> that many of those developers may not be eating their own dog food as it
> were. For how long haven't we been reading about and watching various
> videos from FOSS conferences only to realize they're often using the most
> proprietary hardware and software in the world today, AND DAMNED PROUD
> OF IT. It made me sick read yet another developer (sometimes even a
> Debian Developer at that) wax on and on about the stuff from that
> particular company.
>
> They're writing code and simply throwing it over the wall to us the
> masses these days. It seems to me the Free Desktop.org projects are no
> longer led by passionate community developers seeking to build a stable
> and usable Free desktop. Nope, they're simply writing code to mimic
> their favorite Free Software hostile system but without the integration
> and testing necessary for it to actually work as they're told it should.
> Well, they're not using what they write on a daily basis so the reported
> bugs are easily ignored.
>
> It's frustrating.
>
> Until the projects are of, by, and for the community, I don't see the
> prognosis improving. It is my hope that Devuan will sustain enough of a
> community so that some of the things we had up until a few years ago can
> be recovered and retained. I, for one, am not giving in or giving up!
>
> - Nate
>
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