DeRose: Designing pro creative apps (Part 1-3)

Posted Jul 12, 2011 6:53 UTC (Tue) by jhs (guest, #12429)
In reply to: DeRose: Designing pro creative apps (Part 1-3) by SEJeff
Parent article: DeRose: Designing pro creative apps (Part 1-3)

Excuse me!

I met Jason and his team at the Ubuntu Developer Summit, where they were invited guests. They are a disciplined team with an ambitious yet clear goal. How petty and self-defeating, to disparage them so cynically? How dare you.

Wake up.

Every startup with any sense is making iPhone apps and web services. Yet Novacut writes free software for a new, growing, and previously-unwelcome user base, building a platform with the same convictions about data freedom that we feel about software freedom.

*Plonk.*

DeRose: Designing pro creative apps (Part 1-3)

Posted Jul 12, 2011 13:10 UTC (Tue) by SEJeff (guest, #51588) [Link] (1 responses)

Please read my response to jderose. Novacut has 0 lines of released code and he is doing things like soliciting donations of $5000 for a BBQ where you have to pay for your own flight. I'm sorry, but as a long time open source user and small time contributor, this doesn't sit right. dmedia is good stuff, but novacut still has 0 lines of released code until he proves me wrong.

DeRose: Designing pro creative apps (Part 1-3)

Posted Jul 13, 2011 18:37 UTC (Wed) by jderose (guest, #53578) [Link]

SEJeff,

Please stop saying Novacut has zero lines of code... it's not true. Yes the "novacut" project on Lauchpad has very little code. But Novacut the project has cranked out code at a breakneck pace the last year.

This would be a better response:

"Jason, thanks for working so hard to bring industry leading, ground breaking Media Asset Management to the freedeskop! PiTiVi can use dmedia also, a huge win for everyone!"

I could have put dmedia internal in "novacut", in which case "novacut" would have many lines of code. I was nice enough to split it out into a separate component so it can be easily used by other projects.

Cheers,
Jason