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Re: I have something better
by Ber on Tuesday 01/Nov/2005, @00:15
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Though I agree that the origial poster should hav lowered his (her) voice, you are incoreect to say that a free service does not entitle anyon to anything.
'Free' as in beer should never ever mean that it is bad. Too often I hear people nagging that gimp|ooorg|evolution|inkscape will never reach the level of their commercial counterparts. We all know this is not persé true. It can be untrue, if the developers, users and designers of that appliaction or service step over that 'its free thus it does not have to be good' mentality.
Free (beer) does simply not mean it can be bad. Free (beer) ONLY meens you don't have to pay for it. |
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Re: I have something better
by Janne on Tuesday 01/Nov/2005, @04:44
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"Though I agree that the origial poster should hav lowered his (her) voice, you are incoreect to say that a free service does not entitle anyon to anything."
Suppose that I spend few evening whipping up some code, put in on a website and say "here, you might find this interesting, take it and use it if you want to". And then someone comes along and says "hey idiot! You code is broken! I demand that you fix it!", am I obligated to do it? Is the user entitled to working software? No. Just because I decided to give something away for free does not mean that the people who receive my gift are entitled to make demands. Sure, they can say "it would be cool if it had feature xxxxxx" or if they make simple bug-reports. But making DEMANDS is completely out of the question!
That is what is happening here. Some people decided to offer a service for free. And when there are some initial teething-problems, some people start shouting "hey idiots! Your service sucks! Fix it!". Would the whiners be happy if this service was not offered at all, free or otherwise?
I'm not saying that free software (or free anything) is automatically bad. Quite the contrary. Some of the best pieces of software are free. What I AM saying is that just because you received something for free, does not mean that you are entitled to make demands to the people who gave you that gift.
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Re: I have something better
by Jacx on Tuesday 01/Nov/2005, @23:54
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"Suppose that I spend few evening whipping up some code, put in on a website and say "here, you might find this interesting, take it and use it if you want to". And then someone comes along and says "hey idiot! You code is broken! I demand that you fix it!", am I obligated to do it?"
No, but at least that someone got to /try/ the software... :-/ Cosmopod shure was quick to accept new users even though it could not hope to host them. That's the problem. 3 Days later and still no login...
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Re: I have something better
by Bobb Simul on Monday 22/May/2006, @19:22
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heh, google does a good job with how it releases it's new free services...
they let you join the waiting list
and then eventually they give you a code to sign up
when they are able to (hopefully) be able to provide you with the service they are giving away...
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