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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: MS-DOS Kermit, more incapabalities
Date: 6 Feb 2000 18:04:40 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Message-ID: <87kd3o$60m$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <020500194616not-2-disclose@the.net>,
<not-2-disclose@the.net> wrote:
: Hi Frank, Francis and all the captains Kermit around,
:
: About "MS-DOS Kermit, more capabalities" of February:
:
: FDC> Even for someone earning the minimum wage, the $30 would quickly
: FDC> repay itself in reduced boot time and sanity over a 8088.
:
Again, this is not a quote from me. I don't mind being excoriated for
things I said, but this isn't one them.
: FDC> As you might know, the Kermit Project has always made a point of
: FDC> producing accessible software compatible with low-end equipment...
: FDC> We serve, and have always served... Your quarrel is not with us,
: FDC> it's with the BBSs that don't install a decent Kermit... It's not
: FDC> our job to make Zmodem work better.
:
: You'd deny that the BBS world won't just thrive on the `Kermit' protocol
: alone, even if you were the only users on earth!
:
You're still talking to the wrong people. MS-DOS Kermit:
. Did not cost you a penny.
. Runs on your PC/XT and original PC.
. Includes a fast and reliable file transfer protocol.
. Includes a TCP/IP stack that you like.
. Does what it was designed to do.
. Can be installed on BBSs by their proprietors, as we have invited them
to do all along, and still invite them to do. However you should
understand that their users have more influence over them than we do.
. You have the source code and can modify it for your own purposes,
as generations of Kermit software users have always done. If you make
a modification that might be generally useful, you can send it back and
it will be considered for incorporation into the base version. This
applies even if you might not have the up-to-the-minute working code.
It doesn't matter.
: FDC> If it is "not an option" for you FINE. But it very well may be for
: FDC> others and makes your statement about needing to work in the
: FDC> government or academia no less a fallacy.
:
Again, this is not a quote from me.
This newsgroup is an open forum, and a usually a productive one. You might
or might not have some valid points, but try to remember that you have no
right to make people work for you. You can ask them, you can offer them
money, or employ any other technique of persuasion at your disposal, but in
the end you have no right to their time and labor and therefore no reason to
be angry if they can't attend to your demands. After all, we have thousands
of users who ask us nicely for new features all the time. Our list of
things to do stretches on into infinity. How we decide to prioritize these
items is our business, I'm afraid, but in general we follow certain
well-know principles of scheduling, such as these:
. If it brings a greater benefit to a larger number of people, it has
higher priority.
. If it's quick, easy, and risk-free, it can often be "slipped in" ahead
of its normal priority.
. If somebody else does the work and sends it in, and it's easy to
evaluate and verify and retrofit, and does not break anything else,
it can usually be incorporated quickly.
The final point applies in this case.
- Frank