Andy Kopciuch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> If people are so unhappy with the way things currently have
> been developed in regards to blackbox, and it's applications,
> here's a couple of things to think about:
>
> First the are not that many bb apps out there anyway. They
> all have direct links from bb's web site, so it's not hard to
> find. dl/compile/install. This takes little to no time, and
> you only put in what you want.
>
> You have complete control from step one. It's like lego.
> You can put whatever piece(s) together until you have a
> finished structure of what you wanted. There have been
> several suggestions that seem to me like someone giving you a
> lego structure with every combination of lego piece, and saying
> ... "here ya go, take out what you don't want". That doesn't
> make sense.
>
> If people are still gung-ho about these things ... The software
> is open source. Go ahead and make whatever changes you want,
> combine the apps directly into bb source, change the makefile
> options, do whatever your little hearts desire. You can call
> it orangecircle and put it on your website for download.
>
> If people really want it that bad they can download it. IMO
> people probably won't download it, and that would say something
> too. But don't voice all of the dislikes and expect the
> maintainers to modify bb to a new dimension that is the complete
> opposite of blackbox's intent. If you still have any doubt
> about the purpose of blackbox read the home page of the website.
>
> Blackbox is fine the way it is: fast and light. Everything
> else is second to that.
Absolutely!
Jamin W. Collins
PS. With our views being so similiar, people may start to think one of us
actually controls both accounts on the mailing list.
