2009/3/11 Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:46 AM, François Vincent <batuque@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Just a (maybe) off topic comment. It's not the first time I read that >> "Bryan Varner dropped out due to real life issues". But after his own >> comment at OSNews http://www.osnews.com/permalink?346248 I'm unable to >> see any real life issues. >> >> He says he have just moved to Mac OS X and gave up to work for us. Is >> it a real life issue? What's the problem about being honest? IMHO, >> saying "real life issues" makes us keeping waiting for something that >> won't going to happen. > > Eh, bitter much? > > Bryan keeps a blog, he posts his "real life issues" there all the time.. > > Perhaps you missed a few of them in the last couple years: > > http://www.varnernet.com/~bryan/2007/11/07/things-i-used-to-enjoy-and-no-longer-do/ > http://www.varnernet.com/~bryan/2008/08/11/what-happened-to-my-ambition/ > > a few others are spread through his blog, but the one you're > apparently focusing on is here: > > http://www.varnernet.com/~bryan/2008/09/22/after-a-few-weeks-of-full-time-os-x/ > > Clearly the real life issue here is that he simply has no time to > screw around with hobby OSes any longer. That's a "real life issue" if > I've ever heard one. > > Anyhow, Bryan is a decent guy, no reason to drag him through the mud > here on the mailing list because you either 1) wanted Java for Haiku > and are pissed that it still doesn't exist, 2) hate OS X or something, > or 3) have something personal against Bryan It's 4) none of those. Bryan, if I offend you, I'm really sorry, I didn't want to. English is not my mother language, so I can make mistakes. But in fact, I admire you for all work you did for BeOS and Haiku. And I know Bryan is a great guy! Having real life issues it's not really the point here. Of course I understand we all have problems and free time is like gold nowadays. What I wanted to say in my first mail is I see "real life issues" differently from "I have no interest to work on Haiku anymore" or like Bryan said "just don’t see the point anymore". The first one I understand "OK, he will come back when he can, very soon, I hope", while the second means for me "hm unfortunately that's a goodbye, he won't come back. I wish all the best for him and I'm thankful for all that he made". For instance, you won't say Scot Hacker has no time/real life issues to write a Haiku Bible. It's not the case. He simply has no interest to do so. He won't do it. > We all have real life issues all the time, sometimes it's just "lack > of motivation" (which is a real life issue in my book)... Considering > I have a house that I've been renovating for 6 years, and 3 kids of my > own, I can totally understand where Bryan's coming from. Considering > any time he spent on the project was his own free time, donated for > the benefit of all - I'd say you're being an absolute ass about it. > Well, you clearly misunderstood me. I'm not fighting against Bryan, you, nor anyone else. I wasn't questioning no one's life. I was just trying to clarify that Bryan won't work with us again anymore because he simply doesn't want to. No big deal here. I have no problem at all with that. We just should find someone else to continue his work. Are we OK now? :) Cheers, François Vincent