I agree with Richard 100%. Insult or piss off Wayne and he will ignore
you. If enough people do it, who knows, he may give it up.
Here's my real life analogy:
In the late 80s/early 90s, I was produced and sold kits for a packet
modem I designed, for the Commodore 64 (Digicom64). The first few
years (I call it the "first wave") were fun, getting a lot of positive
feedback, and I even made a little money (less than $10/kit, actually).
Eventually the first wave ended, and the second wave began. It
included guys who never built anything before, but were too cheap to
buy it from me pre-assembled. Some of the PC boards (approx 3x5
inches with several ICs and other small parts) returned to me looked
like they were assembled using a blowtorch or 200 W Weller gun. A
few I could handle. At some point, it became too time consuming and
frustrating, and I just said "I don't need this. I have a life and real job,"
and that was it for me.
Let's not do this to Wayne.
73,
Barry W2UP
On 19 Dec 2001 Richard Thorne wrote:
> I can't take it any more.
>
> Writelog is a great program, has good support and continues to improve.
> Did anyone see the posting from Ron about 10.29 being released which
> address's several of the issues that have been discussed on this
> reflector?
>
> These guys have real jobs to make a living and write/distribute WL in
> their spare time.
>
> How many of you have purchased other programs (non-ham radio related)
> and had compatibility problems with the video card or sound card ect
> ect. Hey its part of having a computer.
>
> What I can't stand, and I mean can't stand is the following type of
> post:
>
> ' I can't get xxxx to work, it should, the author should have
> thought of this before, he needs to fix it now'
>
> ' The documentation stinks I can't even print it out'
>
> ' This feature would be a piece of cake to code, where's Wayne?'
>
> ect, ect, ect
>
> This reflector is a support group and a very good one. If you can't
> find it in the manual or the archives ask your questions here, 9 times
> out of 10 you'll get a decent answer. The 1 out of 10 is probably a
> hardware issue on your pc and no one here on the reflector will be able
> to help you.
>
> But please stop the posts about the author needs to this or that and it
> needs to be like ct or tr or na or.... Hey I was a CT and NA user
> before Writelog. But everything is going to windows, dos is on its way
> out if not all ready gone. Writelog is doing a very good job and I
> think a little support for Wayne and Ron would go a lot farther than
> complaining that it doesn't do this or that.
>
> If you have a problem ask your question here. If you have an idea to
> make the program better post it here. But stop the complaining. If you
> don't like it use something else. I for one am going to sign up for
> another year of releases and continue to support the program.
>
> THANKS to Wayne and Ron for writing and supporting a great program.
>
>
> --
> Richard Thorne - N5ZC
> Amarillo, TX
>
>
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