Re: [OT] RE: [Mingw-users] EXE file size

Since I started this off-topic thread, I think I need to say some more
words.

Firstly, I was just complaining. Complaint from a somehow old corporate guy
find not enough time to study the auto* tools and to dig into the free
software.

Surely there are very different kinds of people working for open software.
The major open-source contributors I know in China contributed their work
when they were post-graduate students.

Free software HAS changed the world. Though, as I compared it to communism,
I don't feel it mature enough to enter people's normal life. The first
lesson Eric Raymond learnt from Linux in his famous The Cathedral and the
Bazaar is:

  Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal
  itch.

Since developers write software out of his own interest, the software is
generally high-quality. Since developers write software out of his own
interest, it is possible he will not care much what the users want; which
great software companies generally do very well. These are my worries.

I hope I could contribute ideas and opinions to the free community. I hope
people (esp. developers) would appreciate these ideas and opinions. If they
could not (or have not time) do it, tell me (or put it off to a later date).
Don't use "submit a patch" to frustrate people contributing ideas and
opinions. Use it only when you know the other person can do it, or probably
can do. Maybe "would you ...". Maybe I am just too sentimental.

Too bad I am posting in THIS list, which is the best open-source community I
know, though I don't know many.

So much for this thread.

Best regards for all, esp. for Jose, Danny, and Earnie,

Wu Yongwei