ImageDisk project is canceled

[Doc Shipley]

der Mouse wrote:
>>For all you B&M types out there: it would help if you remembered that
>>you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar, particularly when
>>the people are working as volunteers.
> 
> 
> And not a word about how lovely and mature Dave is to take his marbles
> and go home in a snit - reneging on his earlier statement (I'd even say
> "commitment") that he'd make the source available when he was no longer
> able or willing to maintain it himself, I might note - because someone
> points out that he's _wrong_ in thinking that no harm is done by
> ivory-tower "you'll get it when I think it's good and ready"
> development?

   Even if Dave hadn't made it clear that the source is privately 
available now, and will be publicly available in the future, there's one 
glaring point here.  It's HIS freakin' code.

   Where's your code, Mr. Mouse?  And the rest of whoever's having an 
issue with this?  What are YOU doing for the community?

   Dave Dunfield is producing working tools, *free of charge*.  He's 
taking suggestions for features and fixes, he's made his image format 
freely available.  But it's his, to do with and to distribute as he pleases.

   I'm a HUGE fan of Open Source development.  I believe it's changed 
the face and the future of computing.  Still, I don't believe that the 
GPL is the Be-All and End-All of OSS, and first and foremost, I believe 
in this:

   The SOB who does the work gets to choose what he does with it.

   Period.


	Doc