Comment 107 for bug 885027

I am quite surprised how long this thread has gotten.

I side with Kovid. I admire him for doing this app. Because ever since Red Hat 7 or 8 I keep reading on the open source (not free software!) forums something along the lines of „if you need it — go build it, now p*** off as we're doing something cool”. He has gotten up and wrote this which is quite unique at the moment. Also he bothers to keep it updated quite often while most of the open source projects (including corporate backed Open Office for example) stagnate.

I also admire him for not playing the racism card. From what I gather most of you come from the so–called western world, and in my life of working for outsourced companies I've seen quite a few orientals supporting their lack of education, language and coding skills with this. This is the best he can do. If you can do better, please help him patch it.

I do agree that he has an „interface” problem, which is more than obvious in his forum postings on mobileread. To my shame I admit I do not know much more than tasted a few curry dishes about his culture. Just try to put yourself in his shoes. Maybe what comes up after a translation as rude, harsh or plain stupid may just be sound normal to him. And attacking him just because of a misunderstanding can just make things worse.

Maybe posting an „unsafe app” label might help. Most probably just diasabling some functions would make more people mad than those who would be happy. Myself I'm sure I'd be split between the two. Also, maybe reading closer the software licence as of „no liability whatsoever” would make people more aware. Maybe just by signing Kovid Goyal should be enough of a warning. He could have posted as Jon Johnson just as well.