A message from 1477

[Magnamancy]

I've been in contact with him regarding work on the Forum Mod ( )
and he gave me this message to give to you guys...

Dear LFE,

I sincerely apologize for posting Tomny's code on LFE without remembering to accredit him for his work. I would really like a chance to explain myself.

In doing so, I would like to discuss a few things regarding that post:

1) At the time of the post, I had merely wanted to share an "experiment" that I was in the middle of developing at the time. I had no intention of claiming any sort of credit for coding the EXE, but was merely interested in showing to the forum the capabilities of the Frame 799 and the 100 Itr EXEs combined together in the modern 2.0a engine. I had no wish for personal reputation on the forum (the rep system had deleted), so there really was no personal gain in trying to take credit for Tomny's code. I merely wanted the forum to see that such a combination was possible, and on the most recent engine (there had been many compatibility issues between the different engine versions at the time).

2) I had no idea of the commotion or response that the thread would receive (not that it had received much in the end). It mostly died out after less than 15 responses (I made sure that I was near the last to reply). Nevertheless, Tomny responded to the thread two months later, claiming that I had merely copied his coding onto v2.0a (which is not entirely true) and had done it incorrectly. I have only recently discovered that post, probably because it fell under the pile of question threads that many new coders were posting by the time I logged in again at around March 2010. Had he PMed me instead of grave-digging up the thread a few months later (when I had become inactive and not expectant of any more responses from that particular thread), I would have gladly added his name to the credits list (as I have done in the past with Silva in my own question threads with "test EXEs", and the careful listing of all members on the forum mod EXE). There are just so many people that have contributed to the modding of the engine that accrediting them all would be difficult.

3) I am not one to steal others' work. I have accredited Silva for his work every time that I made a public DLL contribution to the forum. Not remembering to include Tomny was truly my mistake, and I apologize for it.

4) Again, I would like to spend this entire point on apologizing to Tomny for forgetting to mention his name in my post. I know it is a little to late to amend things, but he never attempted to contact me and request his name be added on (even though I linked my email on my bio page). I would like to amend things with Tomny myself, but since he is also an inactive member, I would like to settle for the next best thing - attempting to show myself as an honest coder in the LFE society.

5) Lastly, I hope that Tomny will read this and accept my apology. Those of you that know his email address or a way of reaching him directly, please send him this message. He has truly pioneered many great features for us in the LF2 modding community.

I, for one, am at heart only a Data Changer. I started a DCer and shall finish (if ever) as a DCer. My main skill and contribution to the forum is to logically edit/modify and combine others' works (as DCers have done to Marti and Starsky's original data) to best fit the players' (and in this case the other modders') needs.

If I have ever claimed credit it is only for implementation, not pure creation.


Conclusion: I would like to sincerely apologize a third time for any inconveniences, hurt feelings, or angry tears that have gone on as a result of my post on that EXE. I have been in the community for a long time, and therefore know to respect others' works. Honestly, not crediting Tomny was a mistake that I committed in my rush at the time to share the EXE. In return, I simply request the chance to clear my name. Really, I had only meant well, and wanted to share the results of my experimentation instead of archiving/keeping it in order to better convenient the DCers (and especially those creating mods) that were having hard time fitting everything under roof, so to speak. I had definitely not meant to keep any of the credit to myself. If I shall ever have the chance, I would gladly accredit and thank Tomny for making such an amazing engine a reality for all of us.

Thank you all for reading.

1477
~Solomon Leung

Edit: You are a trap Ramond. >:/
:P
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Ramond edited this post 09-12-2010 10:51 AM because:

IT'S A TRAP!