On Sep 24, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Patriek Lesparre wrote:
Eric Boon wrote:
I really don't see the harm in someone suggesting that two other
someones, who share an interest, contact each other in order see if
they can combine their efforts.
That's not what happened here...
It is. Really. Or if you want to be *really* nitpicky, the suggestion
was that one of the two contacts the otherone instead of both
contacting each other.
First of all it's not an isolated incident. It's always the same
people doing the 'suggestions'
That's because the MSX community is a relativey small group and some
people are more outspoken than others.
Just like it's always the same people who start the same rants over
and over again.
Second, this is a hobby, and people like to (re)invent their OWN
wheels.
True, nothing wrong with that and I'm in no way saying that people
shouldn't be allowed to do so.
Expecting someone to give up the part that makes it fun
Please point me to the part in Manuel's mail in which he expects Akop
to give up his idea. Show me the 'cease and desist' clause.
In a software project, nobody typically suggests an author for say a
new music editor, to contact another editor's author in order to
'synergise' their ideas. This is why we have multitude of music
editors on MSX, which is a good thing.
Most of the MSX musiceditors were written in the '90s when the
community was a lot bigger and the possibilities of co-operation a lot
less. But even back then people who had similar ideas teamed up to
form software- or demogroups.
Grz,
Eric
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