[Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 89, Issue 25

[Frank Swygert]

Roger has been very supportive of the CoCo Community and I applaud his efforts.

My little gripe was really general, and I DID point out that I understood his decision.
But you're right about one thing -- anyone who can't take criticism you don't need to be
in the public market for anything, just sit in a corner and suck your thumb by yourself
(I'm not meaning that to slam you personally -- I'm using "your" in a general sense).
I've been in the computer market before, and you get both constructive and useless
criticism. Mine was really to plant the idea that there are open source or at least
cross platform tools that would open the market slightly. Yes, I know it would be "slightly"
-- 85% of the general computer market is probably correct, though I would bet there is
a larger percentage of developers who use Linux that are working on general purpose tools
and programs because it's a less restrictive environment. Of course if your goal is
Windows software only... But I digress!

The point is criticism can be taken constructively even when it's just a gripe giving
no real reason, such as "doesn't work for my particular purpose" (duh! get something
that does!!).

Since a few other responses are mentioning specific cross platform tools and such, maybe
Roger will consider looking at some of those if/when he finds the time. My only goal was
to plant the idea, maybe he'll consider it for future versions, maybe going over to a
cross platform environment will be too much work for this particular project.

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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 06:35:04 GMT
From: "tonym"<tonym at compusource.net>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Software offer and Drive Pak solution
To:<coco at maltedmedia.com>
Message-ID:<201009170235934.SM8219523@[208.76.35.239]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Roger,

  Quite honestly, I don't know why you bother any more.
  Every time you release or create something, something happens.

  Now you're even being criticized for the platform it runs on, which happens to be 85%+ of the computer market.

  I would've stopped a long LONG time ago, if I were you...
  Only so many times I'd put up with being slapped in the face, and turning the other cheek...



On 9/17/2010 4:28 AM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:
> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 06:35:04 GMT
> From: "tonym"<tonym at compusource.net>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Software offer and Drive Pak solution
> To:<coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Message-ID:<201009170235934.SM8219523@[208.76.35.239]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Roger,
>
>   Quite honestly, I don't know why you bother any more.
>   Every time you release or create something, something happens.
>
>   Now you're even being criticized for the platform it runs on, which happens to be 85%+ of the computer market.
>
>   I would've stopped a long LONG time ago, if I were you...
>   Only so many times I'd put up with being slapped in the face, and turning the other cheek...


-- 
Frank Swygert
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