Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

Sigrid Carrera wrote:

> Yes, I agree with you, arrogance doesn't help this project. But I
> guess, René (btw, he is (was?) the Debian maintainer for OOo, and I
> guess, he will maintain LibO for Debian too) has seen similar questions
> too much and many people aren't willing to learn something new. So I can
> understand, that he lost patience. But this is no excuse, since I've
> seen this question only once here.

I think that every individual has the right to decide what he want to 
learn and what he does not want to learn. I do not want to learn to use 
the Terminal. Full stop. It is my right, and I simply ignore software if 
I have to use the Terminal.

Each one of us is good at something, and bad at something. I am bad at 
technology, but good at marketing and communications. I have never told 
to people unable to speak in public that they MUST learn to speak in 
public (also because the majority is not able to learn the skills which 
are necessary for that task, either because they are not interested or 
because - being humans - lack the basic ability).

I lack the ability of learning to use technology beyond a certain level 
of complexity, because I am not interested, exactly as other people are 
not able to speak in public because they lack the basic ability. What 
should I tell them: speaking in public is SOOO easy, why are you so DUMB?

Unfortunately, reading this thread I have realized that TDF is too much 
developer oriented, exactly as OOo was too much developer oriented (and 
missed many objectives because of this bias).

As a founding member and a Steering Committee member of TDF, I am not 
happy at all. Users must be respected, and if a user asks for an easier 
installation procedure, he is probably right (and the easier procedure 
has to be provided, sooner or later according to resources).

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