[Diy_efi] Megasquirt

[Lee Garrett]

WOW, a little hostility there eh! I'm not sure that I found anything 
particularly useful in that post. Granted I'm pretty new but ...

Lee

On 2/28/2011 7:11 AM, Fred Cooke wrote:
> Hello Bruce! :-)
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but is this the first response (in 3 years) 
> from you, to me, on this subject? If so, it's about bloody time, 
> really, don't you think? :-)
>
> 2011/2/21 Bruce A Bowling <bbowling at earthlink.net 
> <mailto:bbowling at earthlink.net>>
>
>
>         Bruce, no reply to the accusations of ripping off GM code? If
>         it's not true, say so, if it is, remain silent.
>
>     Actually, there is only one part of the code that did come from
>     GM, not code but the coefficients. Its the barometer correction
>     section, which turns out to be only applicable to one GM model
>     year. But this is long gone, we now know the correct way to
>     compensate.
>
> Good to hear!
>
>
>         \In any case, the days of MegaSquirt will soon be gone, about
>         time really, enough user talent has been sponged for profit
>         already. Enough is enough.
>
>     Days of MegaSquirt being gone? Bring it on :) Its been many years
>     of talk, time for somethng (anything?) real. Many have been
>     waiting for the promise to be fulfilled.
>
> Anything? Many years? Only 3, Bruce. 1.5 years ago I drove Jerry 
> (DIYAutoTune) under FreeEMS power, then I took a long holiday in my 
> beautiful country (and yours) after spending too much time in wretched 
> mother England. That was pretty cool. I should publish the story at 
> some stage, coding at the top of the Empire State Building, etc etc 
> :-) Here is an old video while in Florida cutting between traffic on 
> the "freeway":
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q4XatBmviM
>
> But for now, this for sale thread for my now un-needed MS2 box should 
> be enough ;-)
>
> http://forum.diyefi.org/viewtopic.php?p=13349#p13349
>
>      In the meantime, MegaSquirt will continue to provide users with
>     successful installations and the best support. There is much more
>     to a successful product, and MS has the best collection of people,
>     period.
>
> Hmm, I'm not so sure about that. Besides, who is to say which people 
> MS has or doesn't have? Not you, I can tell you that right now.
>
>      "Sponged profits" - you crack me up with your insight!
>
> Next time, Bruce, before misquoting me, please, learn to read. What I 
> said, was, that *talent* was sponged for the purposes of profit, not 
> that profit was sponged. There is a distinct difference between these 
> two sentence constructions... For the record, Phil Tobin is very 
> guilty of this too, I won't run his software on my machines, I don't 
> trust it. Speaking of which, some readers may enjoy playing around 
> with the Free and Open Source OpenLogViewer (OLV for short) which is 
> progressing rapidly and very usable already - I used it to bring my 
> CAS decoder up to scratch over the last few days. Because it's GPL I 
> was able to just make changes to suit myself and freely distribute 
> them to whoever I wanted for any purpose, nice that, isn't it? :-)
>
> https://github.com/gufi/OpenLogViewer
>
>     BTW - as some people know, this actual forum here that people are
>     using (diy-efi.org <http://diy-efi.org>) has been funded 100% by
>     sponged MegaSquirt profits over the last year. We took it over
>     from Steve Ravet over a year ago after he asked for a new admin
>     and no one stepped up - so we did. Otherwise it would have shut
>     down long ago.
>
> That's great to hear, Bruce! Probably about time you put something 
> back into the community that MegaSquirt tore apart... Full credit there.
>
> I'll start a new email thread when there is more to talk about, it's 
> about time. I didn't make any noise on here before because there 
> wasn't much generally usable to talk about, and also because it has a 
> "hack OEM stuff" feel to it, most of the time, anyway.
>
> Thanks for finally engaging me, Bruce, it's been a pleasure.
>
> Regards,
>
> Fred.
>
>     - Bruce
>
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