[forge-dev] What to do about our little Windows joke...?

Marius Bogoevici mariusb at redhat.com
Tue Jul 24 15:51:46 EDT 2012



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Bakker" <paul.bakker.nl at gmail.com>
> To: "forge-dev List" <forge-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 3:42:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [forge-dev] What to do about our little Windows joke...?
> 
> What you guys like jokes? How unprofessional!
> 
> Unfortunately there is a large group of developers that thinks that
> way... I wish it were different, but it would probably be best to
> remove this stuff. We won't "win" any users by adding jokes, but we
> might piss some people off.

They aren't amused.

> 
> Paul
> 
> On Jul 24, 2012, at 21:31 , Marius Bogoevici wrote:
> 
> > I enjoy the joke quite a lot, however, we've got to be aware that
> > our software often ends up being used in environments which are far
> > less inclined towards the jocular, and where humorous is basically
> > considered unprofessional.
> > 
> > A pluggable fortune-like functionality, turned off by default
> > should
> > be ideal.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Lincoln Baxter, III" <lincolnbaxter at gmail.com>
> >> To: "forge-dev List" <forge-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 2:58:15 PM
> >> Subject: [forge-dev] What to do about our little Windows joke...?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Hey everyone... we've recently gotten some critical feedback about
> >> our little "Windows? Really? Ok..." joke.
> >> 
> >> https://community.jboss.org/message/749952#749952
> >> 
> >> What are your thoughts? Perhaps we could make this a little less
> >> targeted by turning it into more of a pluggable feature, where
> >> different messages show up randomly based on runtime conditions?
> >> 
> >> Like sometimes it might say, "Just 32 bits?" or "Sun still makes
> >> Java?" or "Linux... nice... does your family know?" or "OSX? What
> >> is
> >> a lion, anyway?"
> >> 
> >> Would like to hear ideas. But I certainly don't want to give up
> >> the
> >> character :)
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Lincoln Baxter, III
> >> http://ocpsoft.org
> >> "Simpler is better."
> >> 
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