On 26/11/12 18:51, Russell Coker wrote:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> wrote:
Perhaps that's one reason why most of the best software that I use was written by programmers who are also users of said software, i.e., they're writing in part for themselves and their friends/colleagues, who don't have a high tolerance for bugs. Then some of the feedback comes from direct experience rather than only from reports by users who are not involved in development.
Presumably the GNOME developers all use the software they develop and the same can probably be said for all the free software that is being discussed in this thread. I guess that conclusion would be that people who don't develop reliable software have their own systems running rather unreliably.
That's one possible conclusion, but another completely possible one is: The software works very well for the GNOME developers, and they don't know what all the fuss is about. Just because software doesn't do what YOU want/expect, doesn't mean that it isn't working exactly as designed.