[ILUG-BOM] feedback on gnu-khata (Rony)

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Sunday 31 May 2009 18:22:08 Arun Khan wrote:
> > totally disagree with this. My point is that this software has been
> > under development for a year or so - and has been developed using the
> > proprietary model. I looked at the mailing list archives and do not
> > see one year's discussion there. The strength of free software is not
> > that the code is released, rather it is the fact that the *full*
> > development takes place transparently in public and the public can
> > share in it from the word go. --
>
> Right and IIRC, the point had been made earlier in the discussion.   The
> project's developer mailing list is the forum; what is there or not
> there is water under the bridge.
>
> Moving on, one can either keep viewing the "half glass of water" as half
> empty or as half full and an opportunity to fill it with one's
> experience and mentoring.

I wonder why Indians tend to get defensive when faced with constructive 
criticism? You would think I am an enemy of the project.
-- 
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Associate
NRC-FOSS
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/