Hi Now consider that the "project" is 15 years old (not 2 to 3 years). My guess is that there still are an hour a day worth of emails coming in…. Add to that the "I'd like you to add this feature for me / redesign it to do this people" as the project gets older….
Yes I spent most of the 80's doing that stuff. The memories have almost dimmed enough …. Bob On Mar 28, 2013, at 2:16 PM, NeonJohn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 03/25/2013 09:36 AM, Jim Lux wrote: > >> One reason is that if one DOES release source, one will wind up >> supporting it, because generally, we all nice people and helpful, and >> it's hard to tell someone no when they send an email asking how to get >> it to compile on Version N+3 when you used version N, etc. This can be >> a real distraction from whatever else you are doing. > > Boy, you can say that again. And open source hardware is even worse. A > couple of years ago I put up an open source induction heater on my site. > Everything included - schematics, board layouts, CAD files, theory of > operation, how to wind the transformer - in short, everything I could > think of. There's even a kit available from Fluxeon.com. > > Yet I probably spend an hour a day responding to emails about that > project. Approximately 100% of the questions are either answered on my > site or by a little googling. It's getting to be enough of a burden > that I'm considering taking the page down. > > I'm a dedicated supporter of Open Source but this experience has > tempered my enthusiasm a bit. > >> And then there's the folks who argue with you about your implementation >> or coding style. > > Or electrical design style. I think that the people who want to argue > design, especially "what if I did this?" type arguments are more > tiresome than the software know-it-alls. > > People need to really think and do their Google homework before hitting > the email button on a project site. > > John > > > -- > John DeArmond > Tellico Plains, Occupied TN > http://www.fluxeon.com <-- THE source for induction heaters > http://www.neon-john.com <-- email from here > http://www.johndearmond.com <-- Best damned Blog on the net > PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net: BCB68D77 > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
