From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 21 0: 6:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.249.129.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C21081506C for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 00:06:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA04595; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 00:04:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199904210704.AAA04595@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Licia , Rick Hamell , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: application developers [ was Jordan the Confused (Was: Jordan The Evil!) ] In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Apr 1999 23:46:47 PDT." <13345.924677207@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 00:04:01 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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