From: "b.n." <brullonulla@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:25:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4543BCC7.6060509@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610281918.04198.harmgeerts@home.nl>
Harm Geerts ha scritto:
> Just because *you* wouldn't use it, doesn't mean it's crap...
> Just because *you* wouldn't use it, doesn't mean you have to badmouth it.
>
> You seem to forget people spend time creating these great programs at no cost.
> You don't insult the program, you insult the people behind it.
I personally like and use amaroK, but if he feels it's a smoking pile of
crap, it's in his whole rights to loudly say so. Many nice and helpful
people end up coding piles of crap, the fact they are lovely people
doing free software doesn't stops me to tell their program is a (free)
pile of crap.
> But even worse is that you based your *opinion* on a screenshot and the
> dependencies without even touching the program... and then tell the whole
> world it sucks.
He doesn't like something with these dependencies and the interface
depicted in the screenshot. So his comments are perfectly appropriate.
>> Amarok constitutes a replacement for xmms just like an 18-wheeler
>> tractor-trailer combo constitutes a replacement for a half-ton pickup
>> truck.
>
> Amarok is not a replacement, amarok is an alternative, which is exactly what
> this thread is about. If you compare them as equals your statement holds
> truth, *nobody* would argue that.
I think he implicitly meant "something about as lightweight and simple"
by reading the word "alternative". And I feel he's quite right. I
happily switched from xmms to amarok, but they are definitely not
similar programs targeting the same audience.
And now stop the incumbent flamewars :)
m.
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Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-23 12:08 [gentoo-user] xmms alternative Dave V
2006-10-23 12:39 ` Kristian Poul Herkild
2006-10-23 15:27 ` Uwe Thiem
2006-10-23 16:06 ` Mick
2006-10-23 16:26 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-10-23 19:03 ` Mick
2006-10-23 20:59 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-23 21:58 ` Mick
2006-10-23 22:11 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-24 6:01 ` Graham Murray
2006-10-24 6:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-10-24 6:11 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-24 19:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-10-23 13:11 ` [gentoo-user] " Ilya Hegai
2006-10-23 13:13 ` Arnau Bria
2006-10-23 7:59 ` david
2006-10-23 20:09 ` Mark Knecht
2006-10-23 15:10 ` Korthrun
2006-10-23 15:23 ` Arnau Bria
2006-10-23 21:26 ` b.n.
2006-10-23 20:51 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-28 5:44 ` Dotan Cohen
2006-10-28 6:30 ` Sarah
2006-10-28 7:37 ` Myk Taylor
2006-10-28 8:32 ` Graham Murray
2006-10-28 16:39 ` [gentoo-user] " Harm Geerts
2006-10-28 20:25 ` Chris Atkinson
2006-10-23 17:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-23 17:33 ` Robert Cernansky
2006-10-23 18:03 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-10-24 0:04 ` Daniel D Jones
2006-10-24 1:41 ` Dale
2006-10-24 2:26 ` Meino Christian Cramer
2006-10-24 2:37 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-24 9:59 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-24 10:21 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-10-24 12:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-24 20:59 ` Willie Wong
2006-10-24 21:29 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-25 6:49 ` Mick
2006-10-25 12:30 ` Robin Atwood
2006-10-25 18:35 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-24 23:09 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-10-23 19:14 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-27 4:00 ` Walter Dnes
2006-10-27 4:26 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-27 5:03 ` Mark Knecht
2006-10-27 6:45 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-27 6:20 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-10-27 10:46 ` Mark Kirkwood
2006-10-27 15:25 ` sean
2006-10-27 19:01 ` Robert Cernansky
2006-10-27 12:20 ` Michael Sullivan
2006-10-27 10:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Harm Geerts
2006-10-27 10:42 ` Chris Walters
2006-10-26 23:26 ` david
2006-10-28 1:35 ` Walter Dnes
2006-10-28 8:57 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-28 9:07 ` Robert Cernansky
2006-10-28 23:17 ` [gentoo-user] Is there a simple .pls audio mp3-playing app? Walter Dnes
2006-10-29 1:50 ` Ryan Tandy
2006-10-30 12:33 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2006-10-28 17:18 ` [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative Harm Geerts
2006-10-28 20:25 ` b.n. [this message]
2006-10-29 16:05 ` Walter Dnes
2006-10-29 16:18 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-29 16:40 ` Colleen Beamer
2006-10-29 17:12 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-29 23:25 ` Colleen Beamer
2006-10-28 8:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Chuanwen Wu
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