Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 00:04:01 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Licia <licia@o-o.org>, Rick Hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: application developers [ was Jordan the Confused (Was: Jordan The Evil!) ] Message-ID: <199904210704.AAA04595@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Apr 1999 23:46:47 PDT." <13345.924677207@zippy.cdrom.com>
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Initially, I had a hard time writing the bt848 driver because I didn't think anyone would care;however, I did have a need for a cool video capture device so I wrote it . Later on I was surprised by the interest that it generated . The same thing happen with the original TV application for FreeBSD which I did not think much of it and almost not worth writing and I was not alone in this thinking long time multimedia guru Jim Lowe felt the same . Jordan contributed the jpeg compression to TV later on Randall Hopper took on the task of writing a *real* TV application because the sample FreeBSD TV app was not good enough for him 8) Nevertheless, I do feel that the FreeBSD community should be friendlier to app developers . > I know of no better motivator, myself, and it's what led me to do the > ports collection, for example. I was *tired* of having to remember > how to build all the various bits of software I needed to make a new > machine a comfortable work environment, so I decided to do something > about it. It was never important to me, at least initially, that > anyone else use it. :-) > > - Jordan > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- Amancio Hasty hasty@star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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