Re: [Easytag-mailing] EasyTAG resurrected and back from the dead!

[Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker bennee com>]

On 14 July 2011 22:39, Hood Family <hoodbild maxnet co nz> wrote:
> Kip Warner wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 11:06 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> And it just wastes resources if someone who could be improving EasyTAG
> instead wastes their time trying to get it to build under Windows for
> the Luddites who don't really understand the concept of free software in
> the first place.
>
>
> I can see this two ways:
> 1. Windows should be supported, to educate / convert the ignorant; or
> 2. Windows should not be supported, as that encourages people who know
> better but insist on still using it, to perpetuate its use, and continue to
> drain away the resources of the community.

Or more simply, patches to fix/maintain the windows build are welcome.
However they
won't magically appear from other members of the community who don't
care about the
platform.

Code talks, everything else is just political posturing.

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