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From: | awakeyet |
Subject: | Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] I am really getting sick of this. Goodbye |
Date: | Fri, 24 Mar 2017 13:02:33 +0100 (CET) |
I see what you're saying, awakeyet. From a certain perspective, you make perfect sense. Attempting to bog down the maintainer of a project like GNU IceCat to try and take it down is something I could see a competitor doing. I won't argue that there are rotten people that do pull shady, petty tactics like that to get rid of the competition.
But there are also good people. People like Daniel, that only wanted to see support for his OS. He wants to use GNU IceCat, but he got attacked by people that laughed him out for not using GNU/Linux. There could be 100 reasons he can't or won't switch, and we should respect that. If we don't show our users respect, but instead assume that perfectly honest people are trying to troll or attack us, then we're going to lose people. Not everyone is out to get someone else, although I know it can feel that way sometimes.
Everyone remember: We're all here because we want to see GNU IceCat succeed. I've been watching the development for years. I've seen two maintainers try and fail to keep up with Mozilla's development cycle, and now a third is struggling to keep up. That's why it's up to us to be supportive, not just of him, but of each other.
I know it's easy to label awakeyet as a conspiracy theorist and move on without understanding his perspective, but we should all keep in mind that he might be right. And awakeyet, you need to be willing to accept that you might be wrong. I'm not saying anyone's right or wrong here, but this argument is going to piss people off, and anger will only make it worse.
GNU IceCat is struggling enough without us all squabbling amongst each other. Let's end this now before things get any worse, and get back to supporting the browser we all love.
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Ian Dunn
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