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GNOME Ignoring its Own Users?
Jonathan writes "Some editorials were posted on the web the last few days about GNOME and its apparent lack of interest on user feedback, especially when GNOME pitches itself to follow a 'users first philosophy' in their press releases. OSNews started with an editorial about market research or lack thereof, Expert-Zone posted another one on how OSS must learn to take responsibility on its great success."
I can't feel like a geek if other people can use it!!!
they took the Linux instal away from me... now they are taking GNOME away as well!!!
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
I thought it was supposed to be PEOPLE that thought GNOMES didn't exist, not the other way around... ;)
"Nature bats last..."
Yeah, they are both crap.
(as in too big, too slow, too much like Windows, too inefficient to work in,...)
Linux is not Windows
GNOME seems to respond to my mouse gestures and keypresses pretty effectively.
Granted, I haven't been able to train it yet to respond to my thought signals and verbal commands, but I would hardly attribute it to GNOME's lack of interest to obey me.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
All of us? Well I'm gonna e-mail the other three, and we'll make GNOME pay attention to us!
I mean, isn't that one of the selling points of OSS?
"If you don't like it, fuck off?" No, I'm gonna go ahead and say that that should not be one of the selling points of this thing you're pitching.
I'm thinking that "We listen to our customers, and while we're not perfect, we never stop trying to be" would be a good selling point.
Woah, woah woah! Wait a MINUTE. I know DAMN well what CVS is. It's where I get my drugz, man.
[mutter mutter call me stupid]
-End User.
They didn't tell her to STFU or to F off & die.
That's really a shame, because somebody really should say that to Eugenia.
Daily.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Hey, I asked for that feature too and they refused.
Maybe if we start up a user advocate group and petition Microsoft, then write sour grapes crybaby articles all over the internet, they'll see the demand for the feature and implement it.
Those little punkass developers won't do it though, I just know it. They don't care about their users...
He isn't stupid, i DID stop reading your previous post at the point he said I would.
Jonathanjk.com
She does nothing but solidify the notion that women are good for nothing except making us food and babies. Which is sometimes one and the same.
lowly user: What is this pus?
gnome dev/fanboy: It's spatial Nautilus! It's easier to use; 9 out of 10 eggheaded usability experts say it's miles better than the old way.
lowly user: I hate it. Take it away. Put it back the way it was before.
gnome dev/fanboy: But you haven't given it a chance! See, re-organize everything on your hard drive and change the way you perform your everyday tasks, and spatial Nautilus will save you 0.5 milliseconds on some operations.
lowly user: I just want it to work the way I'm used to.
gnome dev/fanboy: Well, you're wrong for wanting that.
lowly user: Put it back right now! I'm going insane from all the extra windows!
gnome dev/fanboy: Well, just learn this new shortcut key to close them all when you're done.
lowly user: I don't want them to open in the first place. This sucks. I hate it. Put it back.
gnome dev/fanboy: Man, you are just like the other 10,000 lowly users I've talked to this week. What is wrong with you people? I can't imagine how you Luddites will react to the next version, when we make Dvorak (which is 2% more efficient than QWERTY) the default keyboard layout and force you to crawl over broken glass to change it back!
lowly user: Guess I need to look into purchasing that Windows license after all...
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
It is official; Eugenia confirms: FOSS is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered FOSS community when OSNEWS confirmed that FOSS market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all users. Coming on the heels of a recent Loli-Queru survey which plainly states that FOSS has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. FOSS is collapsing in complete disarray.
You don't need to be a Eugenia to predict FOSS's future. The hand writing is on the wall: FOSS faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for FOSS because FOSS is dying. Things are looking very bad for FOSS. As many of us are already aware, FOSS continues to lose market share. Apathy flows like a river of blood.
GNOME is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. There can no longer be any doubt: FOSS is dying.
Due to internal squabbles, threats of forking, and so on, FOSS will surely go out of business and be taken over by AAPL who sell another troubled OS. Now Mozilla is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that FOSS has steadily declined in market share. FOSS is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If FOSS is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. FOSS continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, FOSS is dead.
Fact: FOSS is dying
nonsensicle
Mmmm... sweet, frozen nonsense on a stick.
They took my original quote verbatim but changed "received" from the correct spelling to an incorrect one!