Xentronix Update and Rant.
Jul 18, 2002 16:02 UTC, by Daniel, Senior Journalist
From the ranting department...

Sorry for the following rant, read ahead only if you have nothing better to do. 
 
If you head over to the Xentronix news page , you can see their latest update named Don't Mess With Fairplay!, and rightly so. It's not about coding or app updates this time, about something else, as much or more important, the community. And i couldn't agree more with Frans. What he talks about i've seen before, apps that have, in general, good voting and then one person giving that app the vote of 1. It's happened just now with Refraction and Sample Studio. In the same day...
 
Now, why would someone do this? I'm not trying to guess who did it, i really don't care about someone who would do that, not because the app deserves it, but for some other reason. The why... as i've said, i noticed this before when voting in some apps... maybe trying to disencourage the developer? Who knows... 
 
Point is, the BeOS community, which i love, is considered amongst the best, friendliest in the business, but as in everything, there's the old black sheep. And now in these times, when unity is more and more needed, it comes out more clearly. I've seen this in other situations as well, those who go to IRC know what i'm talking about, few folks badmouthing developers, guys who are doing real work, who deserve nothing but our support and help whenever needed, don't contribute to the success of our campaign. Have no doubt people, these are exciting but also difficult times. This time there's no company behind the effort, no team of engineers working together, this time it's only us, the users and developers. Every help counts as you've read over and over again, if you're a coder, code, if you're a user test and give feedback. This goes for the OS itself, apps, drivers, everything.
 
If we don't stick together on this one, we have NO chance of pulling it off, the dream will be over. I know the progress seems slow, but it's never stopping. We all know making an OS from scratch (or almost) isn't easy nor speedy. And what was accomplished so far is astounding.
 
So people, put aside petty issues, put aside personal grief with someone else, unite and push/pull forward. We have one common goal: see BeOS (in whatever flavour it comes, OBOS, BlueOS, etc) thrive and grow. And for that we need coders, users, together.
 
Phew.. ok, end of rant, for those brave ones who read all of it, thank you and sorry if i bored you.
 
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