From: Gino Peregrini (gino@ghazalpage.net)
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 09:00:05 EDT
Well, David Thompson, I'm only an AbiWord user not a developer. But I find
both your messages, the original and your reply to Dom, naive at best, and
petulant and demanding more than not. Please realize that the *nix
community contains many people who contribute a lot of programming (some
good, some bad) for free. I'm not a programmer and have only been using
Linux for three years. (In fact, I'm a poet and English teacher, somewhat
beyond middle age.) In these three years, I've found various folks on
various lists to be helpful. But I don't throw a snit when I ask for help;
I don't demand x, y, or z. And I have tried to be helpful in my turn.
Dom's reply to you is somewhat testy. I don't blame him; I don't think I
have the patience to be as kind as he was.
Hang in there, David. AbiWord's a great program. If you don't like it or
can't get it to work, there's always Star Office or the KDE office
products.
Gino
On Fri, 10 May 2002, david thompson wrote:
> A reply to my enquiry and comment about libgal was made yesterday, a copy of which is attached. See how bad tempered it is. My reply is below.
>
> it is true that I have not been using linux for long, but this does not mean that I am stupid. It is also true that I quite like abiword - if I did not then I would not bother to try to upgrade the program.
>
> I have looked repeatedly in rpm.net but have not found the file. I have also looked on the ximian site and the Gnome site but have not found the file.
>
> I am very sorry that you cannot take criticism, but the fact remains that the libgal file is obscure, and therefor hard to find. If you insist on making a program which uses obscure files then at least provide a page of links to these files.
>
> I find that the content of the attachment is bad tempered, and sneeky. My message was open - for all too see. But yours is personal, and hidden - like you do not want anyone too see what a 'nice guy' you are, or how well you can take a fair comment.
>
> I shall be posting the attachment, along with this reply for all too see.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com>
> To: david thompson <david@123four.fsnet.co.uk>
> Cc: AbiWord User List <abiword-user@abisource.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 3:08 PM
> Subject: Re: libgal.so.7-revisited
>
>
>
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