You do not know me, jah, therefore you cannot possibly understand how *infuriated* I am. To say that I am still seething with cold fury would be an understatement.
Of course I know that Github is not the "ideal" channel to share files (to say the least). I do not need this list's continued condescending lessons on the matter. But I spent a good part of that night whipping out these files, and it was well past midnight, I was tired and I still had to publish these files; I naively thought it was more important to get the files out there for discussion than to delay one more day to find an alternate hosting solution - as I already had a Github account. With the idea to transfer everything to a more acceptable server soon after.
Only to read lkcl's message at awakening after a shortened night of sleep. That will teach me to try to help.
2017-03-31 7:52 GMT-04:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>:
> i don't _enjoy_ asking people not to use proprietary services,
You didn't ask, you *demanded* in no uncertain terms, such as ***unacceptable*** and ***immediately***. I would have understood if you wrote "I would really appreciate it if you took it down at your earliest convenience". But what makes me most mad is your intolerable accusation that through my action I was bringing "disrepute" to your project.
I find this assertion not only asinine but *utterly unacceptable*, it is an *attack* on my own reputation that I will not soon forget nor forgive.
To make it worse, you're now saying that had you known about it months after the fact, you'd have considered it "nothing to stress about". That's plain adding insult to injury.
I've done my share to promote free software as my skills allow me, in the past 7 years spending _thousands of hours_ helping quite possibly hundreds of people to learn FreeCAD, translating it, writing up documentation, packaging it and providing an experienced CAD user's point of view to its developers.
I am not dedicating most of my free time to be treated that way.
2017-04-02 16:55 GMT-04:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>: >norman, i haven't checked if you're still subscribed to the list
You will address me with my proper name please. That's Normand with a D.
Obviously I have not unsubscribed *yet*.
I've been mulling over the matter over the weekend. I'm not sure I want to be associated with this project anymore. I've already modified my Crowd Supply account so I would no longer be listed as a backer. I've procrastinated about it, but I am leaning toward scrubbing my HDD from all my files relating to this project.
The irony of all of this is, the use I was planning for the microdesktop was to cut my dependency on proprietary cloud services for email, file hosting etc.
I will end with this: I was willing to provide an actual tangible contribution to this project. I ask all of those who would lecture me: apart from endless (and quite often fruitless) talk on this list, what are *you* doing to help this project, exactly?