[Mediawiki-l] How does MediaWiki submit edits?

[Shimmie]

P. Kerim friedman wrote:
> But now I seem to be getting a Micro$oft type of reply
> That isn't why I use open source software!

That is totally uncalled for.  Open source software is not about getting
free support. Its about giving you the code so you can change it to your
hearts content. If you can't do that yourself, then either pay someone to do
it for you or buy commercial software instead.

The people who devote hours and years of their time to provide you with free
things work very hard for nothing, don't owe you anthing, and certainly
don't need your bitching.

By looking at the list below you certainly take advantage of free software,
I hope you give back.

Simon.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "P. Kerim friedman" <kerim.mail at oxus.net>
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
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Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How does MediaWiki submit edits?


>
> On Aug 4, 2004, at 2:50 AM, Brion Vibber wrote:
>
> > The crappy forwarding scheme is your problem
>
> Every other software I've installed on my system:
>
> Pagetool
> TikiWiki
> ActivePHPBookmarks
> Nucleus
> MovableType
> WordPress
>
> Have ALL been able to handle this "crappy forwarding scheme" just fine.
> Media Wiki is the only one that hasn't. The forwarding system is
> actually quite robust, it is simply a frame, nothing else. It can
> handle metatags. The reason I use it is too complex to explain, but
> many people use such systems, whether because they share hosting with
> other people, use subdomains, wish to remain able to easily change
> hosts, etc. That is why all the above software have provisions to allow
> people to do just that.
>
> But all I'm asking is for some help understanding WHY it isn't working.
> You've been very helpful so far, but obviously you don't wish to help
> any more. That's fine. But maybe someone else might know why the forms
> aren't working. Absolute URLs, with the proper domain will all work as
> if they were on the host domain. I like MediaWiki, and you have all
> been very helpful up to now. But now I seem to be getting a Micro$oft
> type of reply: if the software doesn't work the way you want, change
> how you do things. That isn't why I use open source software!
>
> I'm not much of a programmer, so if hacking the forms is truly too
> complicated, I may just have to give up. But I'd like to give it a try.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> kerim
>
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