[MlMt] Evaluation results

[Andreas Jung]

On 19 May 2015, at 17:50, Ben Klebe wrote:

>> Counters showing improper numbers of unread messages an edge case?
>> Non persistent column settings an edge case?
>> Simple email rules something working and sometimes not an edge case?
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>> Seriously?
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>> The programming language does not matter and the number of developers does not matter. The quality of a product I potentially pay for matters. If the quality, the reliability and the added value over competitor products is worth the money then I am happy to pay let's say 100 EUR. Neither the programming language nor the number of developer is an excuse for such obvious flaws. And you don't have to tell that I have no right for complaining about bugs. Obviously some of you have problems taking issues seriously?
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> The flaws are, as I've reiterated, non-obvious. I run MM with a bunch of hacky Gmail labels on the "back end" of my email system, and it handles it all with grace.
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> No, I don't have any issues taking problems seriously. It's just on the scale of problems, I've never experienced any of these and they don't seem like a big deal. However I acknowledge that they affect you, I'm simply saying that you haven't helped to push things along at all. If the biggest problem in your life right now is bugs in a Mac email client, you might want to reconsider your perspective.
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> And no, you don't have any right to force a developer to fix bugs in a product you haven't paid for. It's Benny's choice to even engage with us at all in the first place, which we should be grateful for. Few developers are so down-to-earth that they will even entertain such baseless insults to their credibility as yours.
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> Your original email lamented the quality of Mac email clients in general, which you cannot blame MailMate for. If it's not for you, don't use it. You don't seem to have any interest in doing so, or you'd be actually using it instead of complaining about the minor issues that bug you.
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> Finally, you must be quite naïve about software development or quite new to suggest that neither the language or the number of developers matter. They are both of critical importance, or people wouldn't spend so much time discussing both. Software written in an imperative style or imperative language, especially one with low memory safety like C, is doomed to suffer bugs such as these. It's a consequence of the style. Entirely bug-free software will never be written in a C-derived language, especially not the first time.
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Oh well, the typical we-don't-care and we-don't-give-a-shit-on-bugs-and-software-quality reactions...

-aj 
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