gg@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Some of your comments are valid but your basic premise is wrong. There > is nothing for sale, so the is NO VENDOR. Of course there is a vendor. "To Vend" in the context I use it means to offer for public consideration. Whether that is for a price is detail. Use another word if you prefer, but the developers of Gimp are offering it for public use. > Applying your marketing terminology and mentality to a FOSS project is > wrong . Different motivations are the driving force. The "customer" is > not king. He can be a collaborator. In general though, a customer/user/whatever-you-want-to-call-them can't be a collaborator, because they lack the expertise. That the whole point of the exercise, someone chooses to use the expertise embodied in something like GIMP because they don't have it themselves. Even those few with the skill necessary to contribute may choose not to do so, because they are employing it fully on some other worthwhile project. (this is division of labor). > So is complaining. With FOSS you can submit bugs reports if something > does not work , request a feature is you have an idea or contribute to > the project. The is no channel or reason to deal with "complaints". It seem to me that far too many FOSS developers are quick to interpret any sort of feedback or suggestion as a complaint and an affront. If you want to keep your software just between contributors, then simply don't make it available to the public. If you make it available to the public, then be prepared to deal positively with feedback of all sorts. To do otherwise amounts to bating. > If you see a homeless person with his hand out and give him burger, you > don't expect him to come back and complain about the sauce. If the burger has gravel in it, they may think you are being unhelpful, or worse, trying to injure them. Do you expect them to say nothing ? [ I'm not sure your analogy is helpful, as I suspect it is culturally specific.] Graeme Gill. _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
