syd wrote:
Since you seem to have a misunderstanding of the open-source
culture, let me say this again. It is the people who make positive
contributions to the project who get to make all the decisions and
who get to 'lead' the project in whatever direction they take it.
People who do nothing
Sure i do nothing, and i will do nothing, BYE
My 2 cents worth again ;)
My hat is off to the developers and contributors who continue on with
this project .... despite the constant bickering and whining of people
who cant just appreciate the amount of work that has gone into this
FREE simulator .Its a fantastic ***** FREE **** program .... and only
gets better with time ! And yes , my PR skills suck ! ;)
Keep up the good work !
Syd
If you allow me,
I think free software is also a place where mankind and similar
philosophical values are more respected and defended than elsewhere and
especially than in some but not all paying software enterprises. That
means you have to communicate. Sure the author of the initial mail about
3D clouds has a lot to learn on the subject. My feeling is the
FlightGear egregore did not do the best to teach him. By "communication"
I mean new people should be allowed to get more easily some
understanding of what all is about. Of course I highly value the work of
the developer who implements the 3D clouds. It is natural the work isn't
finished yet. I hope it will never get finished, as technology and
rendering possibilities evolve. I appreciate the fact the 3D clouds are
available even if they are not yet "perfect". It allowed me to test a
few things. May I recall the on-board computers during the Apollo XI
mission had many bugs? The astronauts knew exactly about those bugs and
even made use of some of them. I am thankful the developer of the 3D
clouds was humble enough to release this feature even it is not
finished. (I was going to suggest a little remark be put aside of the 3D
clouds radio button in fgrun to suggest it's experimental. Actually it
is already there :-). That's a good example of communication.) You know,
people who use paying software are accustomed to bugs and misfeatures.
They payed for the software and they feel the managers of the software
were conscious of the misfeatures or even triggered them. This is very
frustrating. It makes you aware of your inferior position, the lack of
respect for you, the stupid limits deliberately imposed to your liberty
and all such nasty feelings. Some people come to free software because
they have no money. They may even react like the Dark Age human rats
they were downgraded to by short-sighted capitalism and consider
FlightGear like sort of a software easier to steal than others. They
won't bother for the bugs. But other people, and that may be the case of
our 3D clouds complainer, come to free software in a quest for higher
human values. What did he find in FlightGear? Misfeatures, just like in
paying software... He got mad. He was wrong to do so, we all agree on
this. I think the response that was sent to him; "look, you didn't pay
for it, so don't complain" is adequate in the paying software
environment but not in free software. There are errors and bugs in
FlightGear because the developers are humble and very conscious of their
ongoing achievements. That legitimate pride was not reflected in the
response. Instead of making the guy feel he enters a new world with
different rules, he got a tight knot of short-minded people laughing at
him and rejecting him. I suppose he felt that way, anyway. By the way,
for the very few who got the patience to read me till here, I added a
chapter about security to my tutorial. It talks about communication and
I made use of the 3D clouds feature for it:
http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/flight_simulator_tutorial.html#security
Plenty of cheers
Eric
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