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Re:For software that is cross platform and accessible, forge... by MBCook on Monday August 07, 2017 @09:09AM (#14947203)
This author wants to be treated with respect. They want to be to able to use free software too. But the projects are basically telling them 'too bad'. And when projects break stuff that's critical to his/her use the response is... oh well. If anyone ever fixes it we'll take the patch.

That's not how you treat people, especially if you want them in your community. This isn't someone complaining that the 'close' button window control was moved to the wrong side. They've lost their ability to use a large chunk of free software and no one (more or less) cares.

And they're probably frustrated as hell.

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Re:For software that is cross platform and accessible, forge... by mb720 on Monday August 07, 2017 @04:35PM (#14951030)
The comment you refer to was about how programmers getting yelled at on the mailing list of the Linux kernel and how that's not OK.

The comment you refer to wasn't at all about Qt and the article about accessibility.

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