Teo Zenios wrote:
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 some
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 issue,
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