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Re: The future of LDraw?
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lugnet.cad
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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:09:31 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Timothy Gould wrote:
> That information isn't there for the end users. It's there for the people
> volunteering their time to make the parts. As Philo said it's very easy to add
> automatically with DATHeader and thus next to no effort for the parts editors
> but it is a good source of credit for those that have donated their time.
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> Likewise the legal issues may seem superfluous but with the new license the
> parts library is finally legally able to be used and distributed in a more
> verstile way. That's a good thing.
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> The trick for the parts library is finding a balance between parts that are
> perfect for the user (including being consistent) and parts that are easy to
> develop. _Possibly_ there is too much focus on the former but it's got little to
> do with the mostly non-issues you raise.
Non-issues to you, perhaps. To an outsider, they are symptomatic of a big
exercise in narcissism.
Decades ago, when I was without a tv but hoping to see the "Spock" episode of
ST:TNG, a friend and I went to Penn State's Star Trek club. They had a meeting
starting one hour before the episode was to air, and we opted to attend the
meeting so that we wouldn't just seem like parasites showing up simply to mooch
their tv.
Well, that one-hour meeting was spent arguing about whether or not the
Enterprise-D on the group's letterhead should be facing to the left or to the
right. After two minutes it was comically preposterous. After forty-five
minutes it was unbearable.
I'm sure that the reasons for the letterhead argument were many and subtle and
well-justified. But to someone watching from the outside, it made the group a
geeky caricature, even to the geek who didn't have his own tv!
I'm not diminishing the efforts of the parts authors, nor am I writing this out
of thin air; I've personally authored well over 1,000 parts that will never be
included in the LDraw library. That is, I *know* how difficult the authoring
process can be.
I've spoken with at least three other people who find the hyper-legalistic
process equally off-putting, and I'm confident that we're not the only four who
think so. Part of the question in the OP was about why people have drifted
away, and I've given an answer.
You may dismiss it as a non-issue if you wish.
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| (...) Possibly so but I'm of the opinion that those that make and share the parts are entitled to some narcissism. And I speak having done minimal part authoring in quite some time (due to laziness) so it's not self-interest at work. --snip-- Your (...) (15 years ago, 20-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| --snip-- (...) Please excuse ne while I become really blunt ;) That information isn't there for the end users. It's there for the people volunteering their time to make the parts. As Philo said it's very easy to add automatically with DATHeader and (...) (15 years ago, 20-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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