Dale posted on Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:36:30 -0500 as excerpted: > What I don't like about the way Walter, mdev, is being treated is this. > People say that if you don't like the way udev is going, WRITE CODE. If > you are not going to write code, don't complain about udev. Then > Walter, I think I got the name right, comes along and comes up with a > alternative for udev that seems to work well for the people using it. > Then people complain because he is actually stepping up and WRITING > CODE. Well, it seems a person can't win on this.
FWIW, while this isn't (currently at least) a solution I'd use, I certainly respect the man both for coming up with a solution to his own problems, and more importantly, for sharing it with others. =:^) The more so here, since as he's stated (and much like me), he's reasonable with scripting, etc, but doesn't claim to be a C/C++ coder. I believe there's quite a few list readers who have a similar respect for his efforts. Just because it's not something they'd use personally, doesn't mean they don't respect the idea. I believe at least some of the push-back isn't out of disrespect per se, or even saying it shouldn't be done, it's more a skepticism many within the FLOSS community develop over time, having seen all sorts of projects begun, but few of them actually survive more than a few months, continuing to be maintained and updated over years. Just take a look at sourceforge or github or the like, for the number of half-or quarter- finished projects... FLOSS projects are similar to business startups in that regard. Something like 80% don't survive a year or ever become even close to self- sufficient, but if they do... they're generally around for five. (Tho a difference with FLOSS is that in 5-10 years, the /need/ for the project has often disappeared as well, at least as originally envisioned. By that point many projects that actually survived their first year and got a userbase, have either evolved far enough from the original idea that they're hardly recognizable, or have simply disappeared as no longer necessary or useful. By contrast, a business life cycle, once it gets beyond that first year, tends to be rather longer... So I think a lot of it is more a "nice idea, we'll see if it sticks around", more than a disrespect for it or the person behind it, per se. If it's still around and actually useful in a couple years, I expect you'll see a lot more overt respect that simply isn't evident, now. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
