[Bf-funboard] Add Mesh - Continued...

[Campbell Barton]

Michael Crawford wrote:
> 
> On Apr 5, 2007, at 3:36 AM, Campbell Barton wrote:
> 
>> Michael Crawford wrote:
>>> On Apr 5, 2007, at 2:53 AM, Campbell Barton wrote:
>>>>> If a person works alone, one must be a programmer to have the same 
>>>>> degree of potential (and this is debatable...  artists are creative 
>>>>> and fool a lot of people with "tricks", but there is a limit to 
>>>>> that.  That's all i'm saying)
>>>>
>>>> why do you think we have a community of programmers who work for free??
>>>> - To support artists so they dont have to develop their own tool all 
>>>> the time.
>>> Which is partially why I haven't bothered to touch the blender source 
>>> :P  I didn't want to say that so blatantly but since you brought it 
>>> up.. :D
>>> Eh.  don't worry.  i'll give back at some point, when i'm done with 
>>> art school, take care of an advocacy issue that's important to me, 
>>> and have more free time to develop.  Blender ain't going anywhere.  
>>> That's another nice thing about open source.
>>
>> This is off topic but I dont believe users of free software are under 
>> any moral obligation to contribute back to the software in any way.
> 
> Changed send address to just you and me.
> 
> No you are probably right... but I want to contribute.  Suggesting 
> features / debating / writing down improvements, bug reports etc... is 
> something i can do in my spare time with no obligations imposed by 
> myself (ie.. if I say "i'll code x feature, and i end up not having 
> time, i feel horrible about it").  Overactive conscience?  Maybe.  But 
> i've always been a long-haired hippie open source type, and i'm all 
> about karma.  See.  With open source, helping yourself is helping 
> others.  What goes around very directly comes around.  I would argue 
> such a system could be applied to a larger system (such as government or 
> even corporation) but that's a topic that's waaay off topic.

Hey, Yeah - I like the mentality of oss, people helping eachother etc..

Btw, could you try to avoid off topic comments on the ML? (personal 
mails are fine ;) )

developers tend not to read threads have a not of off topic stuff. and 
Id liek to keep this as a thread dev's pay some attention too.