On 16 Mar 2010, at 15:01, Curtis Olson wrote: > There are a lot of different angles here, but I think whatever we do, we > can't take out our frustrations on the end users that flightsimpro manages to > sucker into buying a copy of FlightGear without telling them what it actually > is. > > The guy is building his business on a charade ... and that is a hard thing to > keep up long term. He has to spend a large percentage of his time > maintaining his charade, covering his tracks, etc. I can't even remember my > own forum password half the time ... and this guy has to remember a bunch of > user names and passwords. He probably has sticky notes all over his monitor. > Maybe he's really good at that sort of thing and will have some leeching > success, but it's a shaky business model that could come crashing down around > him at any time.
+1 to all of this - I don't imagine the guy will vanish, but he has to work fairly hard to stay relevant - and moreso the more active / well publicised FG is. Of course, communications and 'marketing' is less fun than hacking code, for most of us here - but being visible and communicative (whether it's the newsletter, forums, the wiki or external flight-simming sites) is the easiest way to make his business model less effective. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
