Re: libgal.so.7

From: Alessandro Baretta (alex@baretta.com)
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 14:27:23 EDT

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    I do not wish to perpetuate indefinitely this argument, but
    let me have just a word in it. I am a partly competent,
    largely incompetent user of Linux. I greatly value and
    appreciate all efforts to develop free software for the
    general public to use. I believe the community and each
    individual member thereof ought to appreciate your work as
    Abiword developers, yet, a user, partly competent, largely
    incompetent like myself and many others, who needs help, has
    a right to ask for it, with due respect. It is a duty of the
    community, if not of the developers specifically, to lend a
    hand. As a matter of fact, with all my incompetence, only a
    little while after having installed Abiword (1.0.0 on my
    Gnome/Linux box, 1.0.1 on my Win box), and after having gone
    through a little trouble to find all the libraries rpm
    needed to install the Linux version, I answered a question
    posted on this mailing list by Mr. Keith Powell, who was
    unable to find the appropriate version of libgnomeVFS, just
    like Mr. David Thompson had a hard time finding libgal. I
    realize Mr. Thompson could have used a little more tact when
    asking, but, all the same, I think flaming him has been a
    waste of time and energy for all involved, including the
    readers of this list.

    If, for example, instead of flaming Mr. Thompson, Mr.
    Lachowicz had spent a few seconds reading
    my--repeated--requests for help on the right-to-left feature
    of Abiword, now there would be one more happy user of
    Abiword and a greater deal of gratitude towards the
    Abisource development team.

    Thank you very much for your kind consideration.

    Alex Baretta

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