[hobbit] Henrik

[Stefan Loos]

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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