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Number   :  927
Date     :  2001-11-07
Author   :  Dan Anderson
Subject  :  Re: Ready for the next step? cooperatively?
Size(KB) :  2


Random, I guess I'm a bit disappointed that you are not addressing this
issue with Kan outside of this email group. In fact you seem to have
decided to just ignore Kan's initial reluctance and are willing to just
bypass him. What is the huge rush? You did not develop xxcopy and I think
Kan deserves a bit more respect for the work he has done, and the way in
which he has developed the user community.

I'll give you a quasi-analogy where someone, like Kan, has spent years
developing, documenting and interactively communicating a complex product
that has benefited many people, and then as he prepares to refine it further
with a more user-friendly packaging, you step on to the stage and want to
unilaterally (despite your comments) develop the packaging ASAP with little
or no coordination with Kan. You seem to be treating this as your own user
group.

Your second memo gave me a favourable impression, but now I wonder about
your actions. I'd suggest you work a bit more cooperatively with Kan and
perhaps Kan could contact you off-line. I'd prefer the two of you to sort
this out ... and we don't need a product by the end of this week. I would
suggest that you develop a prototype in joint discussions with Kan, and then
jointly involve the user group once you have an initial approach. I agree
that such an approach might dilute the issue of authorship regarding the
GUI, and it may take one or two weeks more to expose it to the user group,
but xxcopy is Kan's creation and the GUI is just the packaging. If this
starts off on the right foot, cooperatively, it can be a win-win situation.

My impression is that you have something of value to add, but why not do it
recognizing that in many ways we are guests in the xxcopy household. I'm
more comfortable when guests don't try to take control of the household. My
guess is that you became impatient when Kan, understandably, identified his
reluctance in jumping right into a collaborative effort, but I hope you will
reconsider and take some time to try to work with Kan.

If it's a no-mix oil and water situation then I guess you may choose to act
as you choose.


Regards,

Dan


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Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: [xxcopy] Re: Ready for the next step? ripoff?



> Finally, were just going to get on with it anyway and hopefully there
should
> be an exe at the end of this week. Philippe is right and the WIZARD format
> is ideal;) with pretty pictures on it even! lol. We will chuck the batch
> file editor in also and other tools.
>
> Anyway, lets get started
>
> regards
>
> rnd
>



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