I can't help but think that a much better Christmas gift, for the community, would be you releasing, at long last, the sources of your dead nspire_emu forks, which do bring some user-level features (we've always acknowledged that), but are harmful to the community at large.
Indeed, newer nspire_emu versions (with GDB support, Nspire CAS+ support, etc. - the diff since nspire_emu_060 has thousands of lines !) are effectively being withheld from the public until you do, so that you can't pull the closed-source fork trick twice, and thereby expand the duration of the suboptimal situation you've created for even longer.

I'm aware that this message sounds aggressive - but previous gentle repeated attempts to make you behave in a way that goes towards the community's best interests have failed so far, so we're trying other ways to convey our message.

Many thanks to all for the appreciation of my hard work! I even get negative points, whereas the commentators get a lot of positive points. So, it's quite an opportunity for the bad-mouthers! Good for them. Do you have a mirror at home? What about if I have a complete different opinion? I mean, they are simply wrong! Is that not allowed around here? I'm so sorry. Never mind, i still wish some of you a great Christmas season!

That's your opinion, with which i disagree totally. The downloads' count of kArmTI and even of nSpiKx tell a different story. What about that?

The downloads' count of kArmTI and even of nSpiKx tell a different story. What about that?

If people are silly enough to download your outdated versions, it's their loss. Anyhow, it does not make you right for your egregious abuse of open source software and for the resulting harm to a community.

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The downloads' count of kArmTI and even of nSpiKx tell a different story. What about that?

If people are silly enough to download your outdated versions, it's their loss. Anyhow, it does not make you right for your egregious abuse of open source software and for the resulting harm to a community.

What license is nspire_emu under? If the license says he can keep his forks closed source if he wants, then stop pressuring him. If it says that it has to be open source, then go ahead, but please take the pressure off the forums. You have made your point.

I've never expressed myself clearly about this problem.


If we sum up things, we have a developper who does benefit from the work of others (open-source).
But no developper can benefit from his own work, as he turned open-source into closed-source, which is a total heresy to me.

I've been in the TI community for years (less than DJ_O or Lionel Debroux though), I could see many things, many projects start and die.

Why is VirtualTI dead today for example, although it was a reference years ago? Because it was closed-source, and because the authors stopped updating it.

Why was nDoom updated to a color version although Mrakoplatz left? Because he shared his work on the source code.


This behaviour here has nothing to do in the TI community, but might be welcome in other communities.
When you benefit from the work of others which is freely available, sharing your modifications/improvements is just showing respect towards the authors.



This was my own opinion - I won't bother you again with that.

Everyone is entitled to have an opinion, I have no problems with that, whatsoever.

I've been in programming world for more 30 years now, so i've seen a lot too...
I'm not benefiting from other people's code at all simply because i use an alias, SpiroH is not real name. On the other hand, other people (not developers directly, i agree!) are benefiting from my own developing work.

My idea has always been from the very beginning to provide an easier access to the emulator the less tech savvy young students. If that has been misunderstood, i'm sorry. Furthermore, I did not know this forum was 'reserved' for open-source software.

Right now, I'm really considering whether or not i should simply go away, because my 'bad behaviour' is not considered acceptable in this forum. It's very easy to notice and curious that the 'bad reviews' always come from the same group of people, though. Yeah, i'm getting far too much disappointment and annoyance and i have also other important stuff to take care of. I'm stopping here because this discussion will certainly lead nowhere, yet again.