[forum] bloatware

[David Dawes]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 08:17:15PM +0400, Vadim Plessky wrote:

>|  What's stopping those distributors from dropping this stuff from their
>|  binary and source packages if that's possible and useful? It sounds like
>
>Limited human resources? Limited time frame?
>Expectations that XFree86 team would fix this?

Hmm, that's an interesting way of looking at it.  The Linux vendors,
who make their living out of packaging up all this free stuff,
don't have the resources to do a good job of the packaging, while
the volunteers, who don't really get involved with packaging anyway,
do?

The common theme I'm seeing on this list is that most of you seem
to operate in a world where everything is backwards.  That would
explain a lot about the apparent disconnect between the "developers"
and the "community".

Speaking for myself.

David