[Opensim-users] You Assholes lost our funding!

[Justin Clark-Casey]

With all due respect Adam, I've seen this stuff fly by most of the day now and it's really getting old.  When all the 
sensible responses have run out, the only thing you can do is laugh (or cry).

The bottom line is, don't follow bleeding edge trunk if you can't handle the yearly prank (April 1st, come on!).


Frisby, Adam wrote:
> Justin: I hate to say it, but this comes off reflecting badly. I know it doesn't intend to - but really the short reply is this:
> 
> We're sorry you lost your funding, however when we declare trunk to be only useful to testers and developers - there is a reason for that. We say these things not because we're paranoid and don't want complaints - it's because trunk is simply not safe for production systems.
> 
> If your system is running trunk, against our advice and something bad happens, the willingness of volunteers to listen drops dramatically, especially when it is phrased as 'you assholes'. The facts of life are you are getting a software product for free, with full source rights - if you then use it in ways contrary to our advice for commercial users and get burnt, you are not going to find a particularly welcoming reception in this crowd.
> 
> Trunk is unstable for a reason - no-one sane would run the latest MySQL trunk in a production environment, likewise with Apache webserver. OpenSim is no exception, to differentiate here because of the speed of development.
> 
> Yes there was a deliberately inserted prank in the codebase - however it was there under the assumption that the only people running trunk are the people who are developing or testing. We make sure to highlight that is what the intended audience for trunk is, and anyone else should stick to one of our maintained stable branches.
> 
> Adam
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-users-
>> bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Justin Clark-Casey
>> Sent: Wednesday, 1 April 2009 4:09 PM
>> To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
>> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] You Assholes lost our funding!
>>
>> Thom King wrote:
>>>  I just found out our OpenSim-Grid-based project has lost our
>>>  funding because of some stunt you assholes pulled in the OpenSim
>>>  code.  You are despicable!  There is no possible excuse for what
>>>  you have done.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Except that we're all going to die... eventually?
>>
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