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Originally Posted by cuthbert19
Exactly, BUT he was replying to Giggleton's suggestion that the opinion of "casual" users was to be preferred to the one of business users  |
Precisely. My point was that being a commercial user does not
disentitle me, nor negate the value of my opinion. If anything, commercial users have a lot more everyday and ongoing usage than the average "casual" user, and thereby
more experience with the software. This obviously does not include non-commercial power users like Charlie (Crutledge).
It was Giggleton's assertion that if anything, I (and other commercial users) should have opinions of
less value--opinions that should be cavalierly disregarded in favor of those "who make ebooks for fun" that I found particularly offensive. As if somehow, making ebooks as a business is a crass undertaking, polluting "art" for filthy lucre.
I make books for MONEY. I can't fix bugs like Charleski, so I donate MONEY to help support the project. It doesn't make me some craven lesser creature, and I won't be shunted aside by the suggestion that I am. I'm pretty sure that if Valloric and John find my opinions
or my donations offensive,
they'll bloody well tell me. And quite frankly, it's only their opinions that count--not anyone else's who may or mayn't take offense.
Hitch