[opensource-dev] oh give me a break

[Lawson English]

Tori C. wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) <q at lindenlab.com> wrote:
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>> We actually believed we were doing something the community would really appreciate -- getting the source out there the same day as beta. And yet somehow that became something bad. People keep repeating that "it's closed source".
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> There is some appreciation out here! Some of us are happily running
> 2.0 on PPC Macs and that wouldn't have been possible without the
> sources. Kind of funny, but end user hostility pretty quickly put the
> damper on any enthusiasm we had for sharing that porting work, and
> performance tweaks wanted by the platform's shortcomings, outside a
> small group of friends.
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Torri, have you let the Macintosh User's Group know you have done this? 
Quite a few PPC users are kinda down about the whole issue right now.


Lawson