Comments on: 20 Ways to be a Good User http://blog.chipx86.com/2006/01/05/20-ways-to-be-a-good-user/ Various stuff from some guy. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:39:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ben Fowler http://blog.chipx86.com/2006/01/05/20-ways-to-be-a-good-user/#comment-442 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:30:21 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=143#comment-442 I came to your site looking for a copy of the Vim logo. Just to answer Anonymous above. If you are not distributing binaries, you have no obligation to publish your modifications. This is called privacy.

Even if you are distributing (binaries, or anything else), you are under no obligation to use CVS or to accept patches. (Some people accept patches, some people don’t).

(Short and slightly incomplete): Your only duty is to deliver sources (maybe a tar ball) to your customers, those to whom you have delivered binaries. Unless you take it on, you have no obligation to the General Public.

Even the dimmest poster to Slashdot knows this.

Of course, if people are importuning you for your development versions, you can put them on you []hitlist and decline to sell them your binaries. This is standard practice in the embbeded world.

The GPL understands ownership and is business friendly!

]]> By: as days pass by » 18 ways to be a good developer http://blog.chipx86.com/2006/01/05/20-ways-to-be-a-good-user/#comment-441 Sun, 22 Jan 2006 02:59:18 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=143#comment-441 [...] (with apologies to Christian “ChipX86″ Hammond, who does none of these things) [...]

]]> By: Henry http://blog.chipx86.com/2006/01/05/20-ways-to-be-a-good-user/#comment-440 Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:22:38 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=143#comment-440 Don’t forget, if a huge and complex sytem can’t be mastered at once by a complete computer neophyte, the programmer has done shoddy job.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blog.chipx86.com/2006/01/05/20-ways-to-be-a-good-user/#comment-439 Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:06:25 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=143#comment-439 I got one where the user mocked me for building a cathedral because I insisted on not publishing the code to a public version control system until the code was polished and well documented. The code of course is GPL. But not having a public CVS is a big crime now as it keeps users “aloof.” Oh, and I want to forget the hours I wasted explaining my decisions, which of course was never respected.

]]> By: Dennis Kaarsemaker http://blog.chipx86.com/2006/01/05/20-ways-to-be-a-good-user/#comment-438 Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:21:57 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=143#comment-438 How very recognizable :)

]]> By: Moo-Crumpus http://blog.chipx86.com/2006/01/05/20-ways-to-be-a-good-user/#comment-437 Fri, 06 Jan 2006 09:59:56 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=143#comment-437 Nice. We all know that user behaviour.

22) If someone kindly asks you for more information or a better description of errors, doubt he / she knows anything at all. Consider your given informations as enough. It is not your problem if others don’t have the same brilliancy you have. Answer not at all, or in a rude manner. Think of starting to flame the person, to keep the person’s trap shut.

]]> By: Peteris Krisjanis http://blog.chipx86.com/2006/01/05/20-ways-to-be-a-good-user/#comment-436 Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:37:22 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=143#comment-436 Wow, someone really got you angry :) But I have to agree, lot of users behaves just like that :( Sometimes when I keep talk about tolerance and politness is talking something about from middle ages.

]]> By: ChipX86 http://blog.chipx86.com/2006/01/05/20-ways-to-be-a-good-user/#comment-435 Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:04:50 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=143#comment-435 Thanks desrt. Fixed.

]]> By: Avuton Olrich http://blog.chipx86.com/2006/01/05/20-ways-to-be-a-good-user/#comment-434 Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:04:09 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=143#comment-434 21) Don’t read and don’t follow ESR’s guide on how to ask a question.

]]> By: senectus http://blog.chipx86.com/2006/01/05/20-ways-to-be-a-good-user/#comment-433 Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:49:20 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=143#comment-433 heh, not bitter at all are you? ;-)

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