[hylafax-users] New Community site

["Terry D. Boldt" <fastsnip-hylafax1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Since everybody seems to be throwing in their opinion, I will add mine as a 
voice also heard.

As a user (not commercial - just an individual), I have absolutely no problem 
with the HylaFAX web site, or it's content apart from the lack of current 
update. Even that doesn't bother me since the forums afforded all the help I 
needed in getting HylaFAX installed and updated.

I cannot help but notice that the users that seem to have a problem with iFAX 
having an advert box on the site are people that are selling their services 
to commercial interests in installing and maintaining HylaFAX (or at least it 
seems that way from the content of their posts).

Maybe if those people were to provide the h/w and s/w and labor for 
maintaining the site their complaints would mean something to me. Since they 
don't, but want to make a profit from the s/w, their arguments are just so 
much whistling in the wind to me.

As far as Lee setting up a different site, well at least he is going to the 
trouble to do so (I have inferred from his posts that he is also selling his 
services in installing and maintaining the s/w for commercial customers). I 
have absolutely no problem with his doing so. I have not investigated his 
site on sourceForge and have no intention of doing so. But from the reports, 
he seems to have billed his site as being the work of the "HylaFAX developer 
team". Unless Lee is the sum total of the "team", that smacks of either a 
large share of hubris or just plain dishonesty. 

Lee seems to have chafed under the current working conditions of the 
"Official" HylaFAX site and, since he is selling his services for the s/w, he 
seems to have chafed under the fact the iFAX was displayed on the site and 
not his advert. Thus, setting up his own site was perfectly reasonable for 
him to do. I just don't agree with his billing the site as a "HylaFAX" site 
under the sponsership of the "HylaFAX developer Team". Doing so just dilutes 
the HylaFAX name and reputation. Having 2 HylaFAX sites doesn't help the user 
in any way. 

He says that he is not the only one working his site, but has studiously 
avoided naming other names (they are just "anonymous"). I cannot think of any 
reasonable excuse for not doing so since there is nothing illegal in what Lee 
has done. Maybe there are ethical or moral reasons for the "anonymous" 
developers not wanting to be named??

As far as I am conerned there is only one HylaFAX site and it will continue as 
the HylaFAX site.

Thank You for the opportunity to voie my opinion and "vote" in the matter.

Terry D. Boldt
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If you are always rushing towards the future,
Then you never have any past.

Terry Boldt
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Paraphrasing Ben Franklin:

Those who sacrifice freedom for safety, have neither.

The exact quote:

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
  Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790),
  US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer
  Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

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