20 Dec
2005
20 Dec
'05
4:24 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: ImageDisk project is canceled
issue,
Teo Zenios wrote:
some
This thread is like a soap opera.
If you offer to program a utility for the "comunity" you should expect a
decent amount of email in reply that runs from praise to ridicule.
Yep, but I'd not expect the outright *public* hostility that's come from
corners over this; you're right in that private
opinions - both good and
bad -
are to be expected. Public comments along the lines of
"I wish app abc did
xyz" don't seem too unreasonable either.
I'm hardly surprised though at Dave being upset over the "it doesn't do
xyz
therefore the whole thing is a waste of time and total
shit" attitude
which
seems to come across from some.
I just hope that Dave realises that there are many of us who appreciate
all
his hard work and the abilities of ImageDisk in its
current form,
regardless
of what future direction it might take. Just because a
small minority
don't
consider it good enough for their purposes does not
mean that there aren't
far
more of out there who are making good use of his
tools.
> I am not criticising anybody for attempting to go it alone, but it is
easy
> for the developer to get a bruised ego because
they take any criticism
> personally while a team of developers (with a smaller platform specific
> project) tend to ignore the chatter and turn out a project they are
happy
with.
I suspect it's more the way that the criticism was directed that's the
rather than the fact that it happened at all. If
Dave's been publishing
software for years and running his own company around this, it's not
unreasonable to think that he's had to handle negative opinions in the
past
before as well as good ones.
cheers
Jules
Well lets be honest here, people do not do anything for "free". Some people
like the attention, some people use a free service to get their name out
there to built contacts or interest in other things, some people just have
the need to contribute period because it makes them feel good inside. Once
you step up to the plate you will have people cheering you on, a few will
boo, and an even smaller minority will do anything to sabotage you so that
you fail for no other reason then they are just evil. Why get peoples hopes
up releasing anything and then pull the rug out from under them because of a
few rotten apples? If people take you at your word that eventually the
program source code will be released and they start actually dumping disk
images with it you end up wasting their time. I agree people should be able
to do whatever they want with their code up until the point they get others
involved in either helping out with the code or depending on the semi
finished product. Once you start making promises you do not keep expect some
people to voice their disapproval, that is the price you pay for attempting
anything in public and having it not work out.