[OpenLayers-Dev] FW: OpenLayers 2.8 RC2

[C E M Harrison]

Sorry, meant to reply to all ...

www.macfh.co.uk 

>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: C E M Harrison [mailto:c.e.m.harrison at cemh.eclipse.co.uk]
>     Sent: 20 May 2009 20:33
>     To: Dan Little
>     Subject: RE: [OpenLayers-Dev] OpenLayers 2.8 RC2
>     
>     
>     Dan,
>     
>     Please see below ...
>     
>     Regards
>     
>     www.macfh.co.uk 
>     
>     >     I am not speaking for OpenLayers 
>     >     but answering this email because it was causing an awkward 
>     >     smell to develop in my inbox.
>     
>     I consider that to be your problem not mine or anyone else's. 
>      I certainly was not aiming to be offensive in what I've been 
>     saying, and do not believe that in fact I have been.  I am 
>     merely trying to put forward an alternative, outsider's view 
>     of the OL community's efforts, so that you can see yourselves 
>     as others, perhaps even the majority of others, may see you.  
>     If you're taking offence at that, frankly that "is not 
>     terribly important" to anyone except yourself.
>     
>     >     however, many of the open 
>     >     source projects have no motivating factor.
>     
>     That is naive.  Noone goes to a great deal of effort to 
>     create something like OL without some motivating factor.
>     
>     >     The origination 
>     >     of OL was originally written (from my understanding; Chris 
>     >     can correct me if he wants as I was only eavesdropping on him 
>     >     and Schuyler) to further a project at MetaCarta.
>     
>     So that was the motivating factor in this case.
>     
>     >     The results 
>     >     of the project were "given" to the community and now there 
>     >     are many contributors.
>     ...
>     >     So
>     >     while you may want people to use your product, the rest of 
>     >     us that are running these projects are relatively indifferent 
>     >     to whether people are using it.
>     ...
>     >     Again, feel free to go to another javascript web mapping 
>     >     framework.
>     
>     Which I have now done.  The latest version I am now testing 
>     on my PC uses the Google API to draw the Google map, and OL 
>     to draw the Ordnance Survey one, and works much better.  You 
>     may not be concerned that I've had to ditch OL for part of my 
>     project, but I suspect others might be.  I certainly would be 
>     if I were an OL contributor.
>