| I will probably regret this. There is no guarantee of any relationship. You are searching the internet junk pile for artifacts that help you accomplish some goal. Your expertise helps you make this decision. If you do not have the expertise, tough shit. Use the internet and figure it out. You could go slam them in your forum of choice, that's up to you. "Project being bad" "Complain and whine" Cmon man. I have written a ton of scientific code, some published some not, and I love helping my users. I am also glad it is very old and not in a project anyone that would "complain and whine about my project being bad to warn others". No one asked you for a Yelp review. No one owes you a bug fix, emojis, or likes or whatever. "owe the users" "Or close the project." No no no. It is up to the user to figure out "Does this work for me." There is ZERO burden on someone who chooses to share their project. Why is it everyone equivocates plane crashes with software bugs?! Yes! If Boeing decides to gamble lives on an open source project from the internet (!!) without vetting/testing the code they deserve everything they get! The FAA would love that story I'm sure. It is up to the user (hopefully a developer!) to decide what works and what doesn't. This is consumerist thinking otherwise. Would that be comma.ai? Again, caveat emptor, if you choose to drive your car with an android phone (this is 100% a conscious choice) and it drives into a house, it sounds like you're in a load of trouble! Hope you have insurance when you get sued into oblivion. Sorry for the rant here, but I do think this kind of issue bombing / crapping on people's contributions and sharing is degrading a model of open source I particularly enjoy which is casually sharing your work hoping that someone might find a use for it. Example: Ryan Geiss' milkdrop timer code has powered more science than you can know in my lab who insisted on using Windows to control a bunch of lab hardware. Bugs are my own. http://www.geisswerks.com/ryan/FAQS/timing.html That's right, I cribbed a high resolution timer from an mp3 audio visualizer to drive experiments that cost real taxpayer money in my lab. Am I going to go tell Ryan Geiss he is an idiot for sharing this when my experiment fails? Nope. |