Re: Discussing issues

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Sven Luther wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 10:02:56PM -0400, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> >    I think alot of people are confused.  If this were another
> > "market" users would vote with dollars and companies selling
> > products would compete for those dollars.  Users don't vote
> > with dollars in this community.  Companies like XFree86 don't
> > have an incentive to give the users things that they demand.
> > Users seem to have their metaphors mixed and seem to be trying
> > to find other ways to vote, but at the bottom of it all, there
> > isn't anything they can vote with.
> 
> Yes, they can, with contributed code :)))
> 

   Yes, that's a way to influence the technical direction of 
XFree86.  The group I was addressing specificially was the group
of people who don't do the work, but who think they should have
a say in what XFree86 should be doing.  Those people don't have
have any incentive to give to the people who do the work.

			Mark.