Sorry, meant to reply to all ... www.macfh.co.uk
> -----Original Message----- > From: C E M Harrison [mailto:c.e.m.harri...@cemh.eclipse.co.uk] > Sent: 20 May 2009 20:33 > To: Dan Little > Subject: RE: [OpenLayers-Dev] OpenLayers 2.8 RC2 > > > Dan, > > Please see below ... > > Regards > > www.macfh.co.uk > > > I am not speaking for OpenLayers > > but answering this email because it was causing an awkward > > smell to develop in my inbox. > > I consider that to be your problem not mine or anyone else's. > I certainly was not aiming to be offensive in what I've been > saying, and do not believe that in fact I have been. I am > merely trying to put forward an alternative, outsider's view > of the OL community's efforts, so that you can see yourselves > as others, perhaps even the majority of others, may see you. > If you're taking offence at that, frankly that "is not > terribly important" to anyone except yourself. > > > however, many of the open > > source projects have no motivating factor. > > That is naive. Noone goes to a great deal of effort to > create something like OL without some motivating factor. > > > The origination > > of OL was originally written (from my understanding; Chris > > can correct me if he wants as I was only eavesdropping on him > > and Schuyler) to further a project at MetaCarta. > > So that was the motivating factor in this case. > > > The results > > of the project were "given" to the community and now there > > are many contributors. > ... > > So > > while you may want people to use your product, the rest of > > us that are running these projects are relatively indifferent > > to whether people are using it. > ... > > Again, feel free to go to another javascript web mapping > > framework. > > Which I have now done. The latest version I am now testing > on my PC uses the Google API to draw the Google map, and OL > to draw the Ordnance Survey one, and works much better. You > may not be concerned that I've had to ditch OL for part of my > project, but I suspect others might be. I certainly would be > if I were an OL contributor. > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
