On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Bruno Lowagie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniele Dellafiore wrote: > > I am sorry but I simply disagree with you here: No one never ever > > asked BC developer to use maven and no one never asked you to use BC. > > > > You, iText developer, are using both maven and BC > > That's wrong: we don't use maven; we build a POM and > a maven bundle because people ask for it. Not because > we use it.
Ok, I can accept this but I just discovered it after writing here. Despite this, I think that from a project perspective, is best to have a feature complete than a feature at half. You personally and all other iText contributor can simply tell you have not the will, the interest or the time and is ok but, I repeat, from a project perspective, this is a fault. > > Hey, Bruno, not a nice day? I am sorry but, why all this mess? > > Worse, I'm having a bad year. Please read: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.lib.itext.general/36138 > http://java.dzone.com/announcements/itext-210 I was aware, sorry if I did hurt you in any way, I was just trying to relax discussion here, we are just talking about very few important issue. > > I can and I will, not a problem at all, but the way you discuss about > > the matter is disappointing. > > Read a short review of my BarCamp talk here: > http://blog.elisehuard.be/?p=344 > and here (in French, title "opensource et entreprises"): > http://www.monsieurm.be/2008/03/29/mon-premier-barcamp-succes/ > > Let me translate part of the French text: Everybody talks > about Open Source, some use it, but few know the consequences. > It's a great idea to share software everybody benefits from > without paying for a license. Nevertheless: > - some say: as the software is free (as in free beer), the > creator must be a genius and he will be able to solve my > problem (for free). He'll do this because "he is our friend." > - This friend is capable of solving all bugs related to his > problem. After all he created it! But isn't that (more than) > a fulltime job? > > That and the fact that the issues I'm having with the Belgian > government (because I was stupid enough to pay taxes on my > Google revenues from 2004 till now) are still not straightened > out sometimes make me wonder why people like F/OSS that much. > Oh right, I remember: they aren't the ones that are under fire; > they only see the advantages of the many, not the worries of > the few who spent all that time on making F/OSS a success... can understand you are susceptible about the matter but I am just a developer that is using iText for building other commercial or open source software. And I use a lot of open source and create some open source software, and my idea is that you do not have to do all the work, just be aware of what is a problem and what is not. BTW, this is a *real small* problem, but I can help to fix it. -- Daniele Dellafiore http://blog.ildella.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Do you like iText? Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Or leave a tip: https://tipit.to/itexttipjar
