[Qgis-user] QGIS instalation and uninstallation issues

[Werner Macho]

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Ahhh nice - a flamewar .. I am in :)

Right yesterday there was a nice article about exactly THAT problem -
unfortunately it is in German - but probably google translate helps:

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Open-Source-Rawkonverter-Darktabl
e-Windows-Version-scheitert-an-mangelnder-Initiative-2750592.html

I fully agree with them.
I think we all would like to have the superperfect application running
everywhere. But like Sandro already said - it seems that windows users
tend to have a high demand while doing nothing.

Just one sentence as a quote out of that article:
"They (the developers) complain that many Windows users have
misunderstood the open source idea fundamentally ."

Don't get me wrong - I DO like to have QGIS running everywhere
smoothly (and in fact it already IS) but I also use Linux and don't
want to bother around with Windows so .. people using windows should
actually try make the update on windows "smoother" (isnt it already
nice with OSGEO4W?) but - and there I also agree with Sandro - without
breaking the functionality on Linux and Mac ..

kind regards
Werner

On 16/07/15 18:34, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 06:24:51PM +0200, Mats Elfström wrote:
>> I am sorry Sandro, but that kind of remark does not further our
>> common cause; to make qgis useful for all.
> 
> My personal cause is to make QGIS useful for me. I'm very selfish.
> 
> It's very useful for me that QGIS is open source as many people
> can help me making QGIS more useful for me.
> 
> It's very useful for me to NOT ruin others workflow as they might
> stop investing time or money in QGIS, so I'm surely not
> intentionally working to break any use of QGIS on non-free
> systems.
> 
> It is not useful for me to make QGIS work nicely on a system I 
> personally don't use. Unless it was a paid service, which I
> currently don't offer.
> 
> Granted, it might be useful for me if QGIS had more users, in case 
> those users will become funders of QGIS enhancements. But users of 
> proprietary systems are often not even willing to pay for their 
> systems, let alone pay for systems that are offered them for
> free...
> 
> So I, as a developer, choosed not to work on making QGIS play
> nicely on windows. Thanks to the free software nature of the
> software, others developers have other approaches on the matter and
> do care more about (or do offer support for) running QGIS on those
> defective by design systems, but I finds it perfectly
> understandable if it's not so much supported as it is on free
> systems (by the mere fact that more free developers use free
> systems and more oculated investors invest in free systems...).
> 
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