All sounds good, I appreciate the feed back. Curt.
James A. Treacy writes: > At the risk of offending the author of the text, I have modified the > last three paragraphs of overview.html to be a bit less personal. > Reading 'we' too many times gets distracting. Also, the reader has no > idea who wrote the page so I attributed the last paragraph as a quote > from Curt (assuming Curt wrote it :). > > > <p> > There are a wide range of people interested and participating in this > project. This is truly a global effort with contributors from just about > every continent. Interests range from building a realistic home > simulator out old airplane parts, to university research and > instructional use, to simply having a viable alternative to commercial > PC simulators. > > <p> > Flight Gear and its source code have intentionally been kept open, > available, and free. In doing so, we are able to take advantage of > the efforts of tremendously talented people from around the world. > Contrast this with the traditional approach of commercial software > vendors, who are limited by the collective ability of the people they > can hire and pay. Our approach brings its own unique challenges and > difficulties, but we are confident (and other similarly structured > projects have demonstrated) that in the long run we can outclass the > commercial "competition." > > <p> > Contributing to Flight Gear can be educational and a lot of fun. A long > time developer, Curtis Olson, had this to say about working on Flight > Gear: > <blockquote> > Personally, Flight Gear has been a great learning experience for me. I > have been exposed to many new ideas and have learned a tremendous amount > of "good stuff" in the process of discussing and implementing various > Flight Gear subsystems. If for no other reason, this alone makes it all > worth while. > </blockquote> > > -- > James (Jay) Treacy > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
