ImageDisk project is canceled

And not a word about how lovely and mature Dave is to take his marbles and go home in a snit - reneging on his earlier statement (I'd even say "commitment") that he'd make the source available when he was no longer able or willing to maintain it himself, I might note - because someone points out that he's _wrong_ in thinking that no harm is done by ivory-tower "you'll get it when I think it's good and ready" development? I went back and reread the note that Dave is (apparently) reacting to: < I am not sure you've done no harm by so doing... I know for a fact < that at least one person was working on an open-source disk archiver, < but has dropped that project, at least for the moment, because he < doesn't want to create yet another incompatible file format, and < would have wanted to see how you did things (not wasting time < re-inventing the wheel and all that). We'd all better hope his pile < of hard-to-find disks [...] remain[s] readable a little longer. This hardly qualifies as bitching and moaning to me, with the *possible* exception of the last sentence. Of course, Dave's choice of reaction to this information is up to him. But really, after rereading the full note I quoted from (there's a good deal more to it, but I don't think the above is unrepresentative - I'd call it all fair and polite criticism), and rereading Dave's reaction, it's pretty clear to me which one is more "bitching and moaning". Yes, I too hope Dave reconsiders. But I don't think stifling fair criticism - and that's what I think it was - because its target reacts badly to it is ever a good idea. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B