[GNC] A repository for user-contributed files

[D.]

I am not resentful; I was pointing out that there may be resources already available to users. 

As I said, I didn't review the results, so I can't comment on the projects on sourceforge. And while Microsoft may now own github, it started out as an independent outfit that was purchased by Microsoft in 2018. I don't know whether the FUD of Microsoft ownership has actually been borne out in experience. 


-------- Original Message --------
From: "Dr. David Kirkby" <drkirkby at kirkbymicrowave.co.uk>
Sent: Sat Jan 01 15:50:22 EST 2022
To: "D." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
Cc: Robin Lake <robin.lake at frontier.com>, kb1912 via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] A repository for user-contributed files

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 at 16:17, D. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
wrote:

> For what it's worth, I went to the wiki page that another David (how many
> of us subscribe to this list!?!?) referenced. At the top of that page are
> links for outside projects on Sourceforge.net and Git. The first takes you
> to a list of 40 projects; the second to a listing of 578. I'm not
> evaluating what those projects are or claim to do, but it seems to me that
> there are potentially a lot of resources already shared in those places.


I have not checked the github  ones, but if you follow the links on
Sourceforge, you will find a very large fraction are links to commercial
accounting software. Today I was looking on there for software to model
heat transfer. 90% of that was either links to accounting software, or
links to commercial software related to what I wanted.


I am the author of several projects on Sourceforge

Transmission line calculator
http://atlc.sourceforge.net/

Chess database
https://sourceforge.net/projects/chessdb/

Noise figure meter
https://sourceforge.net/projects/hp8970/

Antenna analyzer
https://sourceforge.net/projects/yagiuda/

but I would never put anything else on there.  Source gorge seems little
more than an ad-machine now. Here’s a  few screenshots when I try finding
my own software on there.

Someone mentioned that the user interface to github was not very friendly,
and the fact it owned by Microsoft.

My intension when setting up the space was to try to be helpful.  Although
one person emailed me to say thank you for setting up some file space, I
sense a bit of resentment by others. If the offer is thought not to be
useful, I can easily delete the subdomain.

Dave



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