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    SubjectRe: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)
    On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 20:16:33 +0300
    Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

    > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
    > > Do you realistically think that by hurting the _user_ you will make the
    > > _developer_ write better code?  No, really.
    >
    > As an application writer, if my users complain that their battery is
    > being drained (as it happened), they stop using it, and other people
    > see there are problems, so they stop using it, if people get angry
    > about it they will vote it down.
    >
    > New users will see it has low score; they will not install it. That's
    > a network effect.
    >
    > Having users is the quintessential reason people write code.
    >

    That is nice. But how does it impact the problem that suspend blockers
    solve? And why do suspend blockers interfere with that?

    Cheers,
    Flo
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