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Plasma Active Three released

Plasma Active Three released

Posted Oct 16, 2012 8:22 UTC (Tue) by GhePeU (subscriber, #56133)
In reply to: Plasma Active Three released by boudewijn
Parent article: Plasma Active Three released

Calling "whining" and haughtily dismissing some perfectly reasonable and civilly presented observations (that don't directly touch on the specific implementation but more on a general way of managing the interaction between users and their data)... Way to go, your post shows perfectly how some projects managed to squander a lot of their goodwill in the last years.


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Plasma Active Three released

Posted Oct 16, 2012 9:54 UTC (Tue) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

Yes, if someone who hasn't even tried it dismisses an experiment out of hand, then that is called "whining". Those "observations" you mention are nothing of the sort. They are not backed by experience, they are just knee-jerk negative pontifications. Maybe caused by the fact that being negative about somebody else makes people feel superior, maybe by fear for change, but still negative and unsubstantiated.

People should keep an open mind and welcome experiment. Give it a try, have some out-of-the-way fun some time. Stop posting "observations" that basically say "will never work, how could they be so stupid to do that".

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