[mythtv-users] TapeWorm Beta 4 - new features, and now, fewer bugs!

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Thu Apr 6 17:40:52 UTC 2006


On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:08:40PM -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
> I'm opposed to someone using my mailing list for user support for a non-free 
> application,

He wasn't.  He made a one-time announcement of a program which works
with your software to provide a function which your software does not,
announcing it in arguably the only forum where it *is* pertinent.

That a couple people saw fit to reply and ask him questions does not in
any way recharacterise his original posting as "using [your] [sic]
mailing lists for user support" for his application.

>                 and essentially using this list as free advertising for that 
> application.  I regularly remove people from the list that post 'for sale' 
> ads - I don't see this as being much, if any, different from that.

Clearly.

But that sort of insular attitude -- along, I might say, with the
way you overreact to many other things which happen in "your" mythtv
community -- is the sort of attitude which causes forks in the long run.
(Mythweb was independent before it was a supplied module, was it not?
Was it first announced to the world here?)

It's just happened to Schily; projects get forked because the primary
maintainer is an asshole.  Or even is *thought* to be an asshole.

It really sucks that you designed and implemented a project that's so
popular that there are lots of non-hackers who want to use it and be
involved with it, and that you hosted up a wiki and it got a million
hits in a couple weeks. These things are all horrible.

But regardless of what your opinions of these facts are, if your
interpersonal reactions to people about the facts don't calm the hell
down a bit, you're going to make yourself irrelevant.

You already don't like me, so I don't figure it matters much whether I
tell you this, and somebody certainly ought to.

HTH.  HAND.

Cheers,
-- jra
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