Re: GingerRoot OS (ZVD) Released
if people were nicer he would have stayed
True, but how nice must they be for him to stay?
From what I have seen, I must defend the members and say that they were patient with him. As was stated, he released a tool that someone else wrote. Drew and the other forum members were extremely helpful with the cease and desist letter that he received and never once said anything derogatory to him on that thread. Then he came here and posted a froyo/gingerbread ROM that was not even working and had dubious origins. It is not like it was a half-working ICS rom, which would be understandable due to its bugs, it was a half working froyo ROM...
There was a negative reception to this ROM for several reasons:
first was that he created a ROM thread without a working ROM unlike most who are thorough enough with their work to patiently test and have everything ready before hitting the submit button... there is a professionalism that comes with dev-ing. I am not a full fledged developer and I doubt I will ever have that little blue thing under my avatar, but I take pride in the little development I do do, and I wait to submit work until it has been tested.
Second is that he posted it without a thorough explanation as to what it was about, once again not extremely professional.
Third, there was not explanation as to its origins or its code.
Fourth, despite what one may say, it is suspicious when someone posts a tool made by someone else, receives a C&D, and then posts a sourceless ROM... now you can see the doubt that your devs had.
I am sorry that this member had to go like this, but sometimes you need a thicker skin. Go look at the first few posts on my resurrected bumblebee... Most of them were "Why this dead rom?" "You didn't do anything special." I am a huge believer in being kind to people, but there are times when you have to say things...
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