I am not resentful; I was pointing out that there may be resources already available to users.
As I said, I didn't review the results, so I can't comment on the projects on sourceforge. And while Microsoft may now own github, it started out as an independent outfit that was purchased by Microsoft in 2018. I don't know whether the FUD of Microsoft ownership has actually been borne out in experience. -------- Original Message -------- From: "Dr. David Kirkby" <drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> Sent: Sat Jan 01 15:50:22 EST 2022 To: "D." <sunfis...@yahoo.com> Cc: Robin Lake <robin.l...@frontier.com>, kb1912 via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> Subject: Re: [GNC] A repository for user-contributed files On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 at 16:17, D. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > For what it's worth, I went to the wiki page that another David (how many > of us subscribe to this list!?!?) referenced. At the top of that page are > links for outside projects on Sourceforge.net and Git. The first takes you > to a list of 40 projects; the second to a listing of 578. I'm not > evaluating what those projects are or claim to do, but it seems to me that > there are potentially a lot of resources already shared in those places. I have not checked the github ones, but if you follow the links on Sourceforge, you will find a very large fraction are links to commercial accounting software. Today I was looking on there for software to model heat transfer. 90% of that was either links to accounting software, or links to commercial software related to what I wanted. I am the author of several projects on Sourceforge Transmission line calculator http://atlc.sourceforge.net/ Chess database https://sourceforge.net/projects/chessdb/ Noise figure meter https://sourceforge.net/projects/hp8970/ Antenna analyzer https://sourceforge.net/projects/yagiuda/ but I would never put anything else on there. Source gorge seems little more than an ad-machine now. Here’s a few screenshots when I try finding my own software on there. Someone mentioned that the user interface to github was not very friendly, and the fact it owned by Microsoft. My intension when setting up the space was to try to be helpful. Although one person emailed me to say thank you for setting up some file space, I sense a bit of resentment by others. If the offer is thought not to be useful, I can easily delete the subdomain. Dave -- Dr. David Kirkby, Kirkby Microwave Ltd, drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk https://www.kirkbymicrowave.co.uk/ Telephone 01621-680100./ +44 1621 680100 Registered in England & Wales, company number 08914892. Registered office: Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Althorne, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 6DT, United Kingdom _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
