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RE: [hobbit] Henrik
- To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
- Subject: RE: [hobbit] Henrik
- From: "Stefan Loos" <stefan_loos (at) hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:45:57 +0000
I couldn't have said it better!
Regards
Stefan
<br><br><br>>From: "Vernon Everett"
<v.everett (at) afgonline.com.au><br>>Reply-To:
hobbit (at) hswn.dk<br>>To: <hobbit (at) hswn.dk><br>>Subject: [hobbit]
Henrik<br>>Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:10:53 +0800<br>><br>>Ladies
and Gentlemen of the list<br>><br>>I would like to take a moment to
publicly thank Henrik for his time.<br>><br>>Not only did Henrik write
an amazing tool, but he released it as open<br>>source, allowing all of
us to benefit from his effort.<br>>Henrik didn't ask for anything in
return.<br>><br>>I work for a financial company. Their philosophy is,
if it's free, it<br>>must be worth exactly what we paid for it.<br>>I
proved them wrong. I showed them Hobbit is fantastic application
which<br>>has, in the past 3 months, proven itself over and
over.<br>><br>>But then at the end of last month, Hobbit had a serious
problem. My<br>>colleagues laughed.<br>>"You running open source.
Let's see where you get your support from."<br>><br>>I mailed
this list, and Henrik jumped into action.<br>>We discussed it on the list
for a while, then took it offline.<br>>Later, we were joined offline by
Stefan Loos.<br>>Henrik wrote new versions. Inserted more logging.
Analysed data we sent<br>>him. Debugged his code. Wrote new versions
again.<br>>We did rebuilds, monitored problems, gathered logs, collected
data, and<br>>made it all available to Henrik.<br>>Eventually, Henrik
mailed us a final new hobbitd.c and asked us to<br>>rebuild the
application.<br>><br>>Touch wood, but so far (48 hours later)
everything looks good.<br>><br>>People, Henrik worked hard on this
bug. 12 days, for no reward.<br>>He had no problem with his Hobbit, and
no incentive to fix ours, except<br>>for a commitment to the open source
community, and to us.<br>>We are not entitled to Henrik's software, bug
fixes, support, time or<br>>advice.<br>>It is something Henrik gives
us of his own free will, and for that I am<br>>most
grateful.<br>><br>>Henrik, thank-you.<br>><br>>Regards<br>>
Vernon<br>><br>>_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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