On 24 Feb 2003 at 16:08, Chuck Ryan wrote:

> Now explain to me how you are justified in railing at the community
> for not receiveing your work with open arms and commenting on the
> things they see that concern them. You cannot deride the community for
> not participating sooner when you have given them no way TO partcipate
> until today.

Seems to me that you made comments in an earlier post deriding the
surveys made by OpenMPE as stealth marketing on HP's part instead of
a sincere attempt by OpenMPE to find out what the community wants. I
guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on the means and
perception of that communication.

> Make up your mind, do you want participation or not. If not, just get
> one of those tapes of an audience applauding and play it to yourself
> every time you think you have reached a milestone and save yourself
> the frustration of receiving feedback you do not like.

I can do that. The sounds might be quite soothing. :-)

Nevertheless, this is a form of representative government. You don't
vote on each and every thing passed by Congress - you elect people
you think will support your issues. The same applies here. And I do
realize that we will not have unanimous agreement and support. So be
it.
--
Mark Klein
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