[openbeos] Re: Haiku Vmware Build Environment
- From: "Ryan Leavengood" <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:09:03 -0400
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.
Hopefully Haiku will soon be at a point where we can stop having these
discussions.
Ryan
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