From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gdsm4-0006Fo-C2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:19:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9SIH8HV006556; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:17:08 GMT Received: from aa014msr.fastwebnet.it (aa014msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.74]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9SIEqAx026276 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:14:52 GMT Received: from [37.1.3.90] (37.1.3.90) by aa014msr.fastwebnet.it (7.3.105.6) (authenticated as cyclopia) id 452E07B300AA800A for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:14:21 +0200 Message-ID: <4543BCC7.6060509@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:25:43 +0000 From: "b.n." User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061003) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative References: <20061023080808.0e31ed69@katana.armory.no-ip.org> <200610271227.52527.harmgeerts@home.nl> <20061028013503.GA13455@waltdnes.org> <200610281918.04198.harmgeerts@home.nl> In-Reply-To: <200610281918.04198.harmgeerts@home.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 368eceb9-95a3-41cf-b9c0-9f8739a0c9d2 X-Archives-Hash: ff05e7a9ff88f97dbf8cb6fad03c5a9e 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list