From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:34:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysGit] [FYI][PATCH] Customizing the WinGit installer
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810061031380.3208@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810061810360.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>



On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> Well, I consider it a courtesy to the msysGit people to leave it where 
> it is.

Umm. I consider it to be UNACCEPTABLY STUPID to claim "courtesy" if it 
actually makes something just more irritating to users.

I absolutely detest clicking through EULA's or other self-serving crap. I 
hate software that bothers me with their license details. Nobody reads 
those things anyway, and an extra click or an extra window I didn't ask 
for - _especially_ in open source software - is just a bug.

Bugs aren't "courtesy". Not to the user, and certainly not to the 
developer.

			Linus