[openbeos] Re: Haiku Vmware Build Environment

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 18:09 -0400, Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> >
> > I still do not understand this distinction. Why do people always go
> > back to this as if it putting a file physically on a CD is "evil"
> > while providing it for download on a website is somehow so much less
> > "evil". I find this type of thinking so ... strange.
> 
> My logic is that people downloading have to go through more effort and
> will more likely know what they are dealing with. It is more active on
> the part of the person who will eventually use it. Of course it
> depends on where it is distributed from. I think this logic applies to
> a place like Haikuware. If someone posts a link to a Haiku image on
> Digg or something, that is a whole different ballgame and more like
> distributing a CD.
> 
> For CDs it is more likely that the person receiving it (especially a
> demo CD distributed at a conference) will just take it to get a CD and
> is more passive.
> 
> The passive participant is less likely to be tolerant of problems than
> the active participant, who is likely more educated about the given
> project and therefore aware of its limitations.
> 
> That is how I see it at least.

In a somewhat analogous way, the distro guidelines are not meant to be
easy for everyone, particularly for non-developers. On the contrary, we
want to raise the bar so that only the people with the required skills
and serious about producing something of quality can pursue the creation
of Haiku distros. We can't stop people from creating distros, but at
least we can try to induce certain level of quality.

IOW, if you can't figure out how to change an about window, then
creating a distro is not for you. :)

Cheers,

Koki

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