We do not belong to the same world, clearly.
I have no further comment. Thread closed as concerns me.
Jacques
Roland Hughes wrote:
On Sunday 04 October 2009 01:20:59 pm Jacques Goldberg wrote:
Your harsh criticism is not the best way to express gratitude to a
volunteer who has done a tremendous amount of work for a tremendous
number of people since Intel has ceased its modem development and
maintenance activities.
There was no intent to express gratitude, simply an attempt to inform someone
about the way it really is before they waste a lot of time.
Please be a little more tolerant with somebody who not only gets no
income but pays the hardware used to serve us.
You don't volunteer to maintain a package unless you are willing to do just
that. You certainly don't volunteer to maintain a package just so you can
redirect anyone with a corporate email address to HP contract services to
boost company revenue.
The response I would have gotten, had I used a Gmail account would have been
significantly different. The central crux of the issue (which you and many
others seem willing to overlook/miss) is that I was asked to fork over $3-$15K
for support because I didn't bother to use a Gmail address like many others
here on the list. That was a severe breach of the "volunteer" quality/aspect
you are touting.
As President of Logikal Solutions, you certainly make (part of) your
living of selling your work, and have to pay the tools and salaries of
your employees.
I sell services on business quality platforms, not Unix and Linux. I
deliberately don't sell services on either of those platforms because _nobody_
pays for them. RedHat is about out of business. Sun will be a memory before
the end of 2011 (if not this year). A good number of other Unix/Linux
companies have already went out of business and their products have completely
disappeared from the marketplace. Whenever I do software work on a Linux
platform I release it and never look back at it.
I don't go out and volunteer to support a package for a non-paying community
in an effort to direct persons to a paying channel, which is what happened.
Had he simply said he would add it on the list and it would be a very long
time before he got to it, I wouldn't have cared. That wasn't said, or even
hinted at. Instead, a VOLUNTEER directed me to HP CONTRACT SERVICES to
generate revenue from what they are supposedly volunteering to support.
The criticism isn't harsh, it was earned.
Have you considered offering him a job with your Company? He may be
jobless, you know, in today's world.
He is not unemployed. He is currently using a VOLUNTEER position to direct
users to HP CONTRACT SERVICES.
Logikal Solutions might benefit from his very wide experience, and you
might find yourself, personally, having become one of the many who
support free Linux, not directly spending a cent on Linux development,
just creating the conditions under which one of your employees would be
happy giving some of his free time.
Feel free to donate your free time to whatever pursuits you enjoy. NEVER
VOLUNTEER TO SUPPORT A PACKAGE THEN REDIRECT USERS TO CONTRACT SERVICES. That
is an unforgivable breach of ethics for which NO excuses can be made.
