John, well said! It is not about "verboten", nor wrong or right. Open discussion unfortunately tends to gravitate that direction when strong opinions are involved. Is the art of open unbiased debate dying?
-----Original Message----- From: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com [mailto:neonixie-l@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Smout Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 4:45 AM To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] MCU religious wars (OT?) > On 24 Jan 2018, at 00:23, Dan Hollis <parkxz9aw...@anime.net> wrote: > > Why is it perfectly ok for people to use libc, ncurses, pthread, pcre, > opengl, etc on linux but using an i2c library on arduino is somehow verboten? I don’t think it is forbidden at all, but it is my observation that the bulk of enquiries I get through my website are from empty vessels making the loudest noise. Empty because they don’t have any personal knowledge of their own. They don’t feel they have the time or inclination to learn either, but are quite happy to get me to waste my time on their behalf if at all possible. Whatever happened to the sheer joy of getting a blinky light to flash by one’s own efforts? I am sure there are millions of people happy to code up and document their projects and annotate their libraries for the benefit of others and I am sure many people are grateful to take and use what they can from them. All is well in heaven and the gods can rest easy. I have no problem myself in sharing or being generous. Maybe I have been unlucky in my experience, but often when I help someone whom I do not know it turns sour on me. As far as they are concerned I can gratify their needs but rarely does anyone consider how it might impinge on my available time and if I don’t give continued support to their projects people have turned ugly and rude very quickly. The level of this is in inverse proportion to people’s ability to help themselves. I fear that a grab-it-off the-shelf-ready-made culture only encourages this attitude. John S -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/49D57219-5594-4843-8013-99B1D3777C12%40jsdesign.co.uk. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/004401d3952b%247e867630%247b936290%24%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
