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[Siddartha <politia_morala@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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