Ryan Peters snippet that highlights typical GNOME dev. attitude

Posted May 22, 2011 15:54 UTC (Sun) by me@jasonclinton.com (subscriber, #52701)
In reply to: Ryan Peters snippet that highlights typical GNOME dev. attitude by jake
Parent article: Quotes of the week

> I guess I don't quite follow your point ... one has to be a GNOME developer (contributor, translator, ...) to have an opinion on GNOME 3?

All opinions are not equal.

> And the opinion in question didn't even seem to be particularly critical, so how is it flamebait?

The quote wasn't but the email and the rest of Ryan's flamewar was. See my response to corbet above.

Ryan Peters snippet that highlights typical GNOME dev. attitude

Posted Jun 2, 2011 22:51 UTC (Thu) by Zizzle (guest, #67739) [Link]

> All opinions are not equal.

Translation: if you are not part of the inner GNOME cabal your opinion is invalid and will be ignored. Anyone who says anything bad about GNOME3 is clearly wrong - it is perfect! UI designers say so! What do stupid users know anyway?