I am not agree. ReactOS devs sent an email to all its suscribers and a forum request.Witch wrote:
1.) Because they didn't deserve this money.
They did nothing but send an inaccurate email and late newsletter that caused some people to not even confirm their one vote. Because people had to blindly click through things in German even though there was instructions it was presented in a blasé fire-and-forget way.
If ReactOS would had sent more emails some voices would have raised claiming a potential Spam.
Do you realize that Reactos devs are DAILY working to push ReactOS forward?Do you think that spending their free time DAILY is not enough effort?If I work with somebody in real life that doesn't show the slightest effort in what they started, then I would think that they are wasting my time and thus don't deserve my time.
- Time = Money
- They did nothing to rally the ReactOS fanbase after the inaccurate email and late newsletter.
Don't ask about caring for puntual fanbase effort when you were not able to care about the continuous effort made by the ReactOS devs.
- They showed no effort to coordinate things like they didn't care about the fanbase's efforts.
Btw, did you read this month meeting minutes?You will fin an OWND there, read the PR new team creation. Oh?How many opensouce projects publish the meeting results in order that the fanbase can know about the milestones/objectives?Isnt writting a 500 words report each month a good effort?
No, giving you the thanks at the end is indeed better.It is a sign of consideration. Is giving you the thanks a bad move?
- A thank you note at the end of the competition isn't equal to showing signs of effort and care during the competition.
-Asking politely you to help without spamming3.) ReactOS shows disrespect to fanbase, then disrespect is what they will get back.
-Writting monthly reports in a commun language oriented to ReactoS followers/fanbase
-Thanking your efforts after the contest is finished.
-Creating a potential PR Team (as you can read in November Meeting minutes)
Is this disrespectful? Point me any other opensource project that thanks,doesnt spam and writes Meeting minutes.
Do you know that someone must pay servers, new hardware,domains, hosting?
- ReactOS didn't need this money to survive even if they would have lost. Internet, hardware and server cost would still be operational and business as usual would still continue.
Btw, and repated with your "ReactOS devs are disrepcetful with the fanbase": Do you know that Devs are "donating money to the project" to pay these expenses?Check the donnors list! Even more: ReactOS project is using Servers and Bandwith provided by ReactoS devs!!
So no!They are not just spending their spare time in ReactOS!No!They are not just even "Donating" money directly to the project!But also helping with their own servers and maintenance?
Now please: Do you think they dont care enough?Do you think they dont deserve your 4 minutes of votings?
Yeah!keep it coming
- This money is only a water drop in the ocean. Compared to the kind of money that ReactOS can collect if they just did what I suggest, but they don't care. They haven't cared for 3 years about doing things like that.
So here Devs and the Project are the main responsible of anything: Are you actively helping?
Dont you think that maybe the problem is not just in that sode?Maybe the Community can help a little more?Just 10 or 15(!) Forum guys are helping testing or donating!