<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Instead I think the healthy mental state to have is to be continually<br class="">reminded that we are ALL "standing on the shoulders of giants". Every<br class="">contribution to the QGIS community, regardless of how large or small,<br class="">and regardless of whether someone comes along and redoes all your work<br class="">a day later, has helped shape future contributions and increased the<br class="">"height" we all stand at! If someone comes along and rewrites a bit of<br class="">code making it 100x faster, that's no reflection on the original<br class="">contributor's code -- because without that existing code, it's quite<br class="">likely there wouldn't be anything for the new contributor to improve<br class="">upon!</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Speaking as one of those who has probably had 90% of their code ripped and replaced by better code, I can only agree - its always nice to see people jumping in to make things better and cleaning out the cobwebs :-) Thanks for the rest of your thoughts, I think they provide a good perspective, which I agree with.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Regards</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Tim</div><br class=""><div class="">
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