2014-09-10 12:23 GMT+02:00 Mark A Hayes <markarnold@xxxxxxxx>: > Wednesday, September 10, 2014 at 11:06 AM, pulkomandy > <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On the other hand, I see little point in people popping on the Haiku >> project mailing list and telling us >> "hey guys, your main goal is wrong, and you should change it". > > Wow, retract the spikes right there. I asked about a rationale. There was > some exchanges, there was explanations. Nobody told anyone anything. > > You participate in an open source project, and if you don't like people > questioning past choices or don't like perfectly reasonable debates or don't > accept people disagreeing with you, well, then you'll burn out in a hurry. > > I'm a BeOS veteran and I came into the Haiku project with fresh eyes. I'm > really impressed by parts of project, but I'm also dubious about some of the > choices and goals, but I do of course accept them. Maybe you can learn > something from this. You're creating a BeOS clone, which is something a lot > of people are interested in, and they will have opinions that doesn't match > yours. The fact that it seems to take forever to get a release out the door > makes people think about ways to improve productivity. That was my angle. > > And let's face it: nobody will succeed with another fork or another bare > bones BeOS attempt. So it's in my interest trying to understand why Haiku is > the way it is, and I don't see any harm in offering my viewpoints. > +100 > Cheers > m.a >