Re: gEDA-user: strange build failure

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 5, 2006, at 1:43 PM, Adrian Nania wrote:
> [snip]
> > I agree with Ales -- a Windows port would open the floodgates to  
> > hords
> > of whining clueless fools.  Why should we subject ourselves to that?
> > Supporting the clueful users (and there are quite a few) is already a
> > big job which we do exclusively for fun. Better to keep the  
> > barrier to
> > entry a little high since it's not fun to support the clueless --
> > particularly without any compensation.
>
> As you put it here, gEDA project must accessible to a handful of
> software developers only. Maybe I am wrong to suspect the main  
> audience
> for this tool must be on the hardware developing side. You're being
> funny to name anyone else clueless fools.

  Adrian, your assumption that all hardware developers are Windows  
users is incorrect.  I'm not even sure it's in the majority anymore,  
at least amongst hardware developers who know anything at all about  
computers.  None of the hardware people that *I* associate with use  
Windows.  None.

                 -Dave

--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL





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