[LAU] [LAD] OpenOctaveMidi2 (OOM2) beta release

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 01/28/2011 07:48 AM, Christopher Cherrett wrote:
> -------- Original Message  --------
> Subject: Re: [LAU] [LAD] OpenOctaveMidi2 (OOM2) beta release
> From: Chris Cannam <cannam at all-day-breakfast.com>
> To: Christopher Cherrett <ccherrett at openoctave.org>
> Cc: Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora at gmail.com>, LAU Mail List 
> <linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org>, Linux Audio Developers 
> <Linux-audio-dev at lists.linuxaudio.org>
> Date: 01/27/2011 01:35 PM
>> On 27 January 2011 19:38, Christopher 
>> Cherrett<ccherrett at openoctave.org>  wrote:
>>> I suspect there is much more to this puzzle than attribution.
>> No, really not.  Attribution is incredibly important to many open
>> source developers, partly because there are so few tangible benefits
>> involved with open source work, and partly because the force of the
>> licenses we use (particularly the GPL) depends on being confident
>> about the ownership of copyright.  It matters a great deal to people
>> if you take someone's work and represent it as your own.
>>
>> And it's a pity, because a situation like this or the earlier
>> Rosegarden fork ought to be beneficial to everybody.  With Rosegarden,
>> your project's focus was different from that of any of our core
>> developers and, although we like to keep people happy, we really
>> weren't able to spend the time to do the things you wanted.  Forking
>> ensured that people who liked things "your way" had somewhere else to
>> go, which made things better for them and simpler for us.
>>
>> In light of that, it's a great shame that the resulting new project
>> should then give us such a sour impression -- and the same thing is
>> true again here.  Your casual attitude to other people's work means
>> that I and probably many others would avoid working with you again,
>> but that negative feeling could have been avoided with such a tiny
>> amount of thought and even less work.
>>
>>
>> Chris
> I could not care less if we slapped your name all over the new code we 
> write. I do not have any of the same concerns you have.
>
> Want the code? I will sign over every line of code I wrote to you. I 
> care nothing for the code, only what it can do.
>
> You would not fit into our camp well. We move too fast for most people.
>
> Thanks!
>

Ahhh, the tortoise and the hare... You know who won the race right?

I don't think you want to throw down the gauntlet on who's the fastest 
around here though.

Dat's just fighting talk!!!

Anyway, everyone knows that Chris is one of the top dogs when it comes 
to precision development. People are still using STG2 because it was so 
well put together.

A pretty interface is all very well but making sure everything works 
perfectly takes time and patience.

-- 
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.