From: "Rudi Chiarito" Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: KOSH Date: 26 Nov 1998 05:24:55 GMT Organization: Universita' di Pisa Lines: 65 Message-ID: <912047135.765878@fire-int> References: <73gmnh$jis$1@ezekiel.eunet.ie> <365BF538.MD-0.238.eoghann-irving@usa.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: fire-ext.cli.di.unipi.it Cache-Post-Path: fire-int!unknown@beatrice.cli.di.unipi.it X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.2.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Path: news.vo.lu!news.att-unisource.de!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news-nyc.telia.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-ge.switch.ch!serra.unipi.it!pisanino.unipi.it!not-for-mail Xref: news.vo.lu comp.sys.amiga.misc:201523 Eoghann Irving wrote: > I think its more that you haven't experienced certain treatment from > Amiga Inc. Treatment which makes some of us wonder not about their OS > about about the company and its attitude. Wonder is simply an euphemism... > First a little history.. [snip] Something similar here. I had contacted Fleecy to show him how my conversion of the Amiga User Interface Style Guide to SGML was proceeding, conversion which he had invited me to do in the first place within the ICOA. He liked it, then he told me that he would have liked to see a Developer CD for 3.5 and asked me if I was interested in doing it, because Olaf Barthel was simply too busy coordinating the whole effort. The work consisted in updating the Rom Kernel Manuals, which I wanted to try to convert from TeX and troff to DocBook first, and the other material, to reflect changes up to 3.5. My online version (HTML, RTF, PS) of the Style Guide was to be included too; I suggested updating it as well and adding a whole new chapter for software localization, which was covered by a few paragraphs only in the printed book. Fleecy told me to get in touch with Matt Chaput for the 3.5 artwork and Olaf/caldi for the technical bits. I also got in touch with you to offer you the glossary of the Style Guide as a starting point for the one you would have written, in order to reduce development time and have consistent conventions. But you know that ;) As to the CD, we eventually agreed to discuss the whole thing in Cologne, where I would have brought a printed copy of the Style Guide in its full glory. Well, I also had some Italian food for him that I had cooked and a football to teach him how to play ;) The day I left, he emailed to warn me about the visa problems, but it was too late, so I got to know it only when in cologne. Heck, I was really eager to meet a friend I've known for almost 2 years now and the news made me even more depressed than usual. That was more important to me than the CD. > been clarified. They haven't contacted me either so I assume that they > are not interested in my services. I haven't been contacted either, but I really doubt anyone at AI knows about me. But then I suppose they didn't bother asking Fleecy about his contacts. It seems they bothered asking him the A4000T back, though, because the headers say he's using his K6 again... The person who was supposed to revamp HDToolBox hasn't been contacted, either. Who else hasn't? Please raise your hands. > You'll find that the ARTAS and GlowIcons developers have very similar > experiences. Another two examples here. How Jeff Schindler can ask developers to cling to AI while his company treats developers this badly is beyond my comprehension. See also the story of the ICOA Programming Model. Now, I keep asking myself what should be of the Style Guide... -- "From my hands you know you'll never be more than twist in my sobriety" Rudi Chiarito - Magrathea & SushiWare Development - Jay Miner Society Member EMail: chiarito@cli.di.unipi.it - WWW: http://www.cli.di.unipi.it/~chiarito/ MISTAKES/MISSPELLINGS ARE FICTIONAL: A SIMILARITY TO REAL ONES IS INCIDENTAL