And now the whole thread is yours, jim. You have successfully engaged here and reverted the original intention of nparafe. Congratulations: It was a request for help and now you have overtaken and overwritten this with several aspects including also demanding things you have really no insights into and being completely different. I don't understand your approach you are doing here, really. And I will now do the following after responding your posting:
I will split nparafes original posting into a new thread, closing this one. Now for your answer:
jim wrote:There are no flaws in my logic on this issue, since it was not me who invented the Hyperbola!
For example, I came up with or developed some kind of product that should be used not only by me and my developer friends, but by any user. Personally, I think out of respect for my users I am obliged to make a detailed guide or wiki so that those who
interested or wants to use this product, you can configure, install, use and understand how it works!
As for your opinion about nparafe, I’m also a user who has a printer and scanner that should work and I’m asking a question on this topic - setting up a printer/scanner, since there is no information on this issue either in the wiki or here or on the forum .
I am sure that if nparafe has a question about setting up its equipment, he will ask in this topic.
Again, jim: The question of nparafe was overwritten by you with a complete different approach. It is common point of free, libre software that questions are there. It is also common to document them. But it is also common to test together. So the line between user and developer is very thin, sometimes both are the same person. That can be a disadvantage, most it is an advantage so we can help each other. When you create an issue - anywhere - you are asked about clear information and people need your actions to investigate issues. But you are NOT helping with demanding, in fact you are even doing more problems as small projects are designed from within the community, you are part, so you are also either working with or not working with. Not working with in such threads not helping, jim. Clear and straight!
jim wrote:I don’t understand the logic when someone developed their product and tells users, let’s set it up together??????
Regarding the cost of developing a wiki. You have already said many times that all your efforts are aimed at developing HyperbolaBSD, this is great, thank you for your work, I want to ask you since many people left the Hyperbola project, as you yourself wrote about it, where on the site you wrote:
Dear friends!
Our project is looking for a developer or several developers to help us write a wiki within 2-6 months!
Write to...@hyperbola...
You give them a technical task and they work. Why ask an ordinary user who may not know any languages and just wants to use Hyperbola to create something together, this should be done by a professional! Maybe you’re trying to save money this way, but in my opinion, with this approach, there won’t be a wiki for another 10 years! If there was a ready-made wiki and you would invite users to correct something and test it together, it would be logical.
Do you really think of the outcome when doing this? I doubt that, because for asking to pay people you also need the money to pay every single person and this something we do not have. Should I now call again what you alone demanded as one single user and what amount of time I invested just to search the information helping you? That's not how free, libre software is working. You want a "product", jim. But Hyperbola is defining itself more in another region, since its first day even. Yes, it can be used in any context but it is foremost free, libre software. It was and is born out of altruistic motivation and every single person have given time and engagement. The people have left out of different reasoning, most of as loosing interest or no longer reporting back. So what do you do then? Especially when you have given money. Good question and the answer is: You can't do anything about that. Your demands are illusions, jim. You have just an image and think this is working, but sorry: That's not the reality.
I don't see any more points to go on with the discussion, jim. I close this thread now as you have really no intention in discussions. You have not even posted your printer-scanner-combination. For me underlining that there was never any intention of you to help or support. You just await something and I just do not understand your intentions. Just giving you mine: I would not engage here if I would not have that interest in free, libre software and helping people. But for helping, I need information. Not giving those information is ... not helping. Easy, clear, fair and straight. And please: If you engage now in the other original thread, jim ... do it with information possible. Not with meta-discussions being like "dreamcastles". If you want something like a "big project", use those. Hyperbola is NO "big project", never meant to be.
Thread closed and forking. Sorry, nparafe: I will act as said and redo that: This thread has gone off-topic into a "meta-discussion" (again to be noted as you, jim, just want to question every single step and want to drive into a direction not working like with Hyperbola). And to be honest clear: In most other forums your argumentation would have lead to even more harsh reactions, jim. We have another approach here and I have no issue with having these debates most the time. But those are not helping in this so I close this thread.
Human being in favor with clear principles and so also for freedom in soft- and hardware!
Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices: For a life of every being full with peace and kindness, including diversity and freedom. Capitalism is destroying our minds, the planet itself and the universe in the end!