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I think it's part of the dark side of open source software. When your product is free, you feel no obligation to your users whatsoever. We see it time and time again. Firefox, Ubuntu, Gnome 3, KDE 4, systemd, etc. The attitude is always, "we know what's best for you, piss off." Hell, I am guilty of it myself. When I'm working on projects for free, I do things the way I want them done. But in my defense, I'm one person working on niche projects nobody would ever depend on for anything important, and I am not looking for popularity. But right now, the most I can do to express my dissatisfaction is to simply leave. And when we all do that, then suddenly they don't hear anyone complaining, so they think everything they are doing is great, and keep getting worse. I complain because I've enjoyed their software so much in the past, and I'm saddened by its new direction. Microsoft really went against the grain with Windows 8. And you saw similar levels of outrage. But you know what? The Windows 10 preview has fixed most of it. The Metro start page is gone, the start menu is back, Metro things can run inside windows and multi-task properly now ... they may not be perfect, but they are definitely listening to their customer's feedback, at least. |