On Tuesday 08 December 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 08 December 2009 15:20:28 Kevin Krammer wrote: > > > - if you produce commercial software, and no one uses it, you don't get > > > money, so you have to listen to your users if they are unsatisfied. > > Interesting. The truth is that on several occasions I've found that FOSS > software either didn't do exactly what I need, or that I could not find the > information to allow me to do what I need. The thing that really knocked > me for a six was the first time I wrote to a developer, asking for help, > and he answered, and kept answering until I was using his application > correctly and we were both satisfied. This has happened more than once > since then. > > Have you ever tried to do that with a "commercial software" package? > > Anne Hello again, Yes, I did, but I must admit these were small programs (I remember a scanner program). But I grant you this is certainly the rule. Thierry ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.