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[onekelly]

I definately agree with that. In the end this a forum or chat room has no real bearing on my life. With that said I still like this board, but I won't lose my marriage over it.

[onarum]

You really could have handled such a small critique better. Its an honest mistake, how are you to know what my map says.

true that, nvm that post, I was not in a good mod heh.

Well it was pretty pointless to post the "correction" in the first place.  Both of you, go to your rooms.

But that's not fair mommy he started it  :razz:

Anyway whether his reasons were childish or not I don't know, but he's not the first one to complain about the scene, the truth is that I really can't say anything because I don't know wtf is going on

Also I'm curious about what he said
"From SC splitting the scene to card makers not releasing drivers"

what does SC has to do with this?

[richardv]

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[ihopeyoudie2]

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[onarum]

Stone Cypher

Oh, heh my bad  


also whats with the spam in the last two posts?

[DragonMinded]

Wow, brakken, way to post complete lies.  Good thing I didn't take you up on the interview, I'd love to see what you would have twisted my words into.

[popinadam]

Man, that certainly is alot to read ... *phew* it's a good thing I don't give a crap what's going on.

'goes back to watching Berserk' "la dee da"

[onekelly]

Poponinadam, what..............were.....you saying........? I fell asleep from the above text... :wink: LOL

[Nphinity]

*sigh*  The real problem as that soo many of the great open source and/or hombrew coders of our time, are kids.

It's always gatta come down to a bunch of yelling and screaming about a load of junk.

I've seen several scenes do this, and it is all due to a childish mentality.

For instance, I get Dragonminded ditching the scene if he isn't enjoying himself, or has better things to do with his life.  But asking that no one pick up DSOrganize?  Screw that.

Take responsibility when you develop software, people.  Treat it like its a project that you are working on for the community, and develop software with the mentality, "I will not be working on this forever, so I will do what I can to make sure that when I go, someone else can pick up the reigns if they want."

You may think you are doing something like this just for fun, but when you distribute it to hundreds, if not thousands of people, they come to count on your software, and you.  It isn't reasonable to expect you to work on it your whole life, but it is reasonable to expect you to keep the stuff open for others to pick up on.

The greatest pieces of software we have today, are those that the developers left in a state that the software could continue to be developed by the next generation that has time and intrest, rarely have the origional developers stuck around for the entire life.


And finally, Dragonminded wrote an excellent, essential, cap blowing piece of software.  In just the first few releases of DSOrganize, he met so many of the things DS users had been hoping to see their DS's be capable of.  Thanks for the great software Dragonminded.  But, please don't take offence if someone else picks up your project, to some of us, it is the thing that made the DS so kuhl.

[tennisgy]

^good post those are some great opinions

p.s. my thread got on the front page lol

[Lick]

Speaking for most homebrew developers (it might sound rude but yeh): we do our best and listen to most of the feedback, trying to provide the best software as professional as we can. However, we NEVER promised anything about giving away the code, never quiting the project, and always staying in the scene.

If we did sign up for the responsibility, and we'd quit, we'd be kids. The reason I say this, is because I don't want any misunderstandings about responsibility that we never signed up for.

[Nphinity]

Whether you plan it or not,(aka signed up for it or not) when you release a piece of software that the public comes to depend on, the responsibility falls apon your shoulders.

If you wish to avoid being responsible for your product, don't release it to the public.  And if you want to release it to the public, without being responsible, release the source, so that, those that are willing to undertake the responsibility, can do so for you.

And if you want to release software, take no responsibility for it, and not release the source, then you are just seeking fame, and fooey on you.

(^_^)

[pte]

Must be a very boring life if it depends on a piece of NDS homebrew software... When a dev releases his or her software is it because they want the others to enjoy it as well. It doesn't mean anything else, they do it for free. A software company that provides a program with support and gets paid for that is another story, a dev who doesn't gain a thing is free to dowhatever they like.

Dragonminded released the source of DSOrganize, didn't he? He just doesn't want anyone playing around with the code so that it might screw the users memory card's up or even worse. He would be the one receiving all the flame for that crap.

[Lick]

Whether you plan it or not,(aka signed up for it or not) when you release a piece of software that the public comes to depend on, the responsibility falls apon your shoulders.

I can't accept your reasoning. You're saying that once someone releases software, he NEEDS to update the software. If he doesn't, the project MUST be made OpenSource so others can update the software? I don't see these rules anywhere.