Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

[Dan Farrell <dan@spore.ath.cx>]

On Wed, 16 May 2007 15:54:13 +0100
Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> The great thing about free software is that it all comes with a full
> money back guarantee. So before you start shooting your mouth off when
> something produced by volunteers in their own time fails to work for
> you, stop and remember how much you paid for it and why.

And how much they got paid to write it.  

Perhaps I'll take this oppertunity to say:  Thanks, to everyone who
helped make gentoo what it is today.  You do a fabulous job.  This is
the best distro on the planet ; )

Present company excluded, I begin to feel resentful towards people that
complain but offer nothing to help.  I _don't_ want to offend anyone
reading -- this mostly happens on the forums -- but c'mon people, if you
know whats wrong, why not help out the devs instead of mocking them?
This is supposed to be a self-supporting community, remember?  

At any rate, I just installed X last weekend and had no big problems.
It may not work for everybody 100% of the time, but it works for me
99.9% of the time, and the .1% is almost always my own fault.  Remember
how many people are collaborating on this project, and think of how
difficult testing must be when there are literally thousands and
thousands of hardware and software configurations.  If something's
broken, why not help them fix?  They'd probably really appreciate it --
and i _know_ i would.  

Thanks again, to the gentoo team and the community here.  
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