Hi Peter,
You might find it amusing, but 95% of us find it demeaning and infantile, and it has turned away many potential Observium users and contributors. I personally don't think people should have to pay a premium for basic civility.
That said, Adam has been behaving pretty well over the last few months, so maybe feeding him dollars helps him to be a more happy, balanced human being. (If so, he's the first human being I've ever heard of who's improved by the addition of cash.)
But look at the alternative: a bunch of sucky monitoring software packages that look terrible and work worse. Perhaps even with the trolling it's still worth a few bucks.
Regards, Paul
P.S. Is it too much to hope that if we pay Adam to be professional he'll switch to a professional's revision control system (git) which allows us to keep a local history beside the upstream release history? :-P
On 10/05/2013 07:44 AM, Pieter De Wit wrote:
I'll pay him not to be - it is quite ammusing sometimes :)
(only j/k btw)
On 5/10/2013 10:40, Mark wrote:
Is Adam going to be nicer to us when we are paying customers? :P
- Mark
On Oct 4, 2013, at 2:59 PM, Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org wrote:
On 2013-10-04 20:39, Frank Ortmann wrote: Seems reasonable to me. You've got to make some money somehow and it seems to be an affordable price. Will have to see how the accountants feel about it though :-) Will this mailing list serve both community and enterprise users?
I'm not sure yet. Where else would we put the community users? :)
adam.