[openbox] Images in the menu

Mikael Magnusson mangosoft at comhem.se
Mon Nov 1 00:03:34 EST 2004


On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Tero Grundström wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Marc Wilson wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 10:38:46PM +0200, Tero Grundström wrote:
>>> On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>>>
>>>> We _are_ only making Openbox for our own enjoyment and we also share what
>>>> we have made with anyone who wants it.
>>>
>>> If so, you are not part of open source community as a whole. What you
>>> have here is a tiny, little separate community "in a dark box".
>>
>> I don't know what "open source community" YOU are part of, but in the one
>> I'm part of, things get done because someone is scratching an itch, not
>> because of any great altruistic impulse to save the world.
>
> I'm part of the open source community as whole, which naturally includes
> all kinds of people world wide (a fact you cannot do anything about).
>
> Let's put it this way: Start a new idealistic community with a punch of
> young people who "get the job done". Eventually these young people get old
> and don't get the job done.. Do you ditch them because of that or take
> care of them anyway like a human being?
>
> Oh yeah well, this is the way modern world works, open source "community"
> not being any better (in some cases) - where Microsoft discriminates poor
> people, open source people discriminate the ones without programming skills.

I think this thread is perhaps getting a weeee bit offtopic now. We were 
talking about images in the menu?

--
Mikael Magnusson


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