The Digital Dragon’s Lair

Recently a former linux podcaster Bryan Lunduke made this post http://lunduke.com/?p=206. Wanted to make sure my respose that follows was seen somewhere in case he leaves it off.

“Actually, the more I thought about it, the more sense this made. If there is a Windows and Linux version that allows us the ability to directly compare download and sales numbers. Then we can take those numbers and make a much more detailed case of what sales of applications can look like on Linux.”

“I went back and forth on that myself. Eventually I decided that most companies have existing Windows software and will be porting to Linux. As such it would be handy to be able to show numbers contrasting downloads/purchases (both for raw numbers and ratios) between the two platforms. This way it would more closely mirror (though still not exactly) their situations.”

Bryan the more you talk the more it appears your just trying to backpedal and appease the people who are calling you out on what seems like a bullshit move. You talked about part of this project being to document and show the big companies that it could be done. Where is the documentation of the project? oh right your documentation so far has been that of releases nothing about the supposed underlying libraries that you have done improvements on and no proof that you will ever do anything with them. I think that as time goes forward we will see zero documentation just as we have seen thus far.

When I got into an actual friendly exchange with suggestion of things to do to help improve the ui for this project and asked a question about where you might go with part of it your response was nothing more in my eye’s than “piss off it’s proprietary” Yes it may be a proprietary project but your building it for a open platform and after getting into an exchange with someone interested in the direction of the project and make it sound like you may well take there idea’s to tell them to piss off because you don’t want to share where you might go with the project is insulting man, but we are finding out that seems to be your standard operating practice.

Cheers