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Well I’m not necessarily saynig thsi applies to me and my current life situation. I was just curious really what everyone thinks… because this is a major topic of debate for me and a number of friends as of late. While this does apply to my situation perfectly, whichever way it is, strangely I’m not unhappy about it.
Just for the record, I made a few comments that were uncalled for. They have since been modified to better reflect the situation, and my feelings toward the people involved. I did not mean to accuse Em of harmful intentions in respect to what has happened with aiMutation, I simply was angry for being kept out of the loop.
As far as Triton development, any language that supports COM can interface with Triton through the API they are creating. The only thing available as of now though is the type library, which, with a little creativity could yield plugins right now, but since the library isn’t open yet and things could change very easily it isn’t worth putting too much time into developing something that could be completely broken when they release the API.
As far as Mauro’s actions, the way it appears is that it was a selfish action considering the fact that aimutation points to versoworks.com, but I really am not included in the details of what happened, so there is no way for me to say conclusively what the intentions are, and I am guessing that it is better that way. From speaking with Em, it seems logical and reasonable that the situation is simply better off the way it is, and it is not about selfishness or anything like that.
I have not abandoned the aiMutation community, and I hope that em hasn’t either. I guess only time will tell… Triton is really the future of AIM and neither em nor myself can do anything to change that. I wasn’t in it for the money, and em made a good point to me, he wasn’t in it for that either. Hell, it was his idea in the first place years ago to make aiMutation an open source project…. we shall see what happens now.
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Basically my posts were the same as the one above. I had no knowledge of aiMutation being shut down until I realized the website was turned off. Oren and I never really used aimutation.com for anything other than status updates so we didn’t check into that site regularly. With all of the popups that some of the “admins” on that messageboard put on the site I really stopped caring about aimutation.com but aiMutation the project was never out of my mind. I had full intentions on releasing aiMutation 2.0 when the time was right, but whatever happened with Em, Tracy, and Jason… and whoever else was involved… well that was out of my control, and in fact I have no knowledge of it either. Em responded to me in an email that basically said that I should send my code to him to put on the site, but he is no longer in control of the project, he merely owns aimutation.com. When he handed the source code down to me a long time ago, I was put in charge of the project. Why this all happened is beyond me, but apparently, due to whatever happened, aiMutation is in I would say… a state of purgatory. No matter though, with AIM Triton out aiMutation, DeadAIM, MiddleMan, and Messenger:Mate are all incompatible.
Fear not though… messenger:mate will have competition once the SDK for Triton is finalized… at least there will be another option.
What is actually funny is that the project was handed down to me directly from em, yet I wasn’t even contacted about the site coming down.
What interests me is the fact that I have been developing aiMutation 2.0 behind the scenes, working on a plugin framework in .Net 2.0, and I even updated the status bar on the website, yet no one said a word to me about it.
Now with that said, I just posted a few messages on the Versoworks site, only to have them deleted within minutes of posting them. Then I was banned from the forum. Interesting indeed. Well it doesn’t hurt that I still have full control over the aiMutation project on Sourceforge, but I guess that doesn’t really matter without the domain name.
I haven’t been checking into the site on a regular basis because I got tired of explaining that it would be out when its out. I got tired of hearing people say that the project was dead. I knew that it wasn’t dead and that was good enough for me. I was planning to release the plugin architecture as soon as it was done so people could see that progress has been made. No one cares about that though. Looks like I will be taking my work and applynig it to a different project since people seem to care so little about a FREE AIM add-on.
Quote:quote:Originally posted by zeroofflineI’m guessing by your response that open sourcing the plugins has not been discussed yet? If it hasn’t been, maybe you could put it on the table. I’m sure more people are interested in it then just me.
It basically is on the table, but it is off to the side with the peas 🙂 Although the BuddyAmp plugin, if the old version is not open sourced, a new version will be written pretty easily that will be open sourced. As far as the others, we are working out the details of it. Just a little more time really and everything will be known for sure.
