On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:56:07PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote: > I understand your frustration. The fact that people use your stuff but > won't come around to say thank you will probably not change. It's however > possible to shift your perspective and that has the potential to reduce the > frustration. Carlo, Absolutely. I'm not sure how many people use e2fsprogs, but granted it's "somewhat large", yes? (As in every single Linux computer out there. :-) I get a thank you note about maybe once a year. I think *once* a grateful user sent me a paypal payment of $20, but that was extremely rare in the over 12 or so years that e2fsprogs has been in existence, and I was completely (but pleasantly) surprised when it happened. If you're in this business to get thank you notes, or virtual beers, you're in the wrong business. :-) Now, what you *could* get out of it if you are willing to write a paper and submit it to OLS, or Linux.conf.au, or some other conference, might be an invitation to tell others about your cool tool. And if you are one of those who get satisfaction at download statistics, that can be good too. BTW, if you are willing to relicense your code to GPLv2, I would be interested in reworking bits of your tool into e2fsprogs's debugfs. Or if you'd like to keep it as a standalone tool, that's cool as well. Regards, - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
