1) I certainly don't work that way, which is why I simply cannot understand where you have the right to demand and expect things from those that freely GIVE to you.
2) Look it up in the dictionary, there is one only. Mentioning 'soon' means nothing more than that, soon. This could be soon as in 3 days 3 months or later. Soon means soon. Promise means promise. There is no different meanings. If there is a misunderstanding, then you really should look the word up. If I had said PROMISE in the ocrporate world, and not kept it, then I would be in default of something that is much worse than saying soon. Much much worse.
1) You are not correct. No one demand something from
free opensource product. I don't expect or demand Epsylon to improve his miner because it is distributed freely as it is. On the contrary if you include devfee then your customer can expect something, maybe not demand but ask for some features. Just because it is win-win situation. Yes I think that I can ask/propose dev like palgin to improve his miner the way I think it should be - because i'm his customer, I'm buing his product. Your miner is the same as faras it has 0.7% devfee.
2) English is not my native language but you are talking about a "deal" in corporate world or "oath". Promise is more like a husband promising his wife not to cheat, each time after being caught. Anyway "soon" in crypto is no way close to 6 month (or how many more you need to release). This period has better variant - "not in this life".
Understood.
Though I think you confuse EXPECTING with ACCEPTING. Eitherway, I do agree with you on that point that the expectation is there when people pay for the product. We have no 'dev fee' in the miner. NONE ZILCH NADA!
We tie the miner to our pools which have a 0.7% fee whether you use our miner or any other miner. Semantics admittedly, but very important differences. ALL our pools have a tiny 0.7% fee for use, and as such can never constitute a miner 'dev' fee. We lock the miner to our pools for many other reasons that just to have the mining effort directed to our pools. Stability and course of support/bug tracking are two of the main reasons.
You mentioned rune is laughing earlier - when by having our main dev poached by large corporates like our competitors will make life MUCH more difficult in the mining scene, yet you STILL manage to use their pools, stratums, and make them MUCH more money (their main focus) than they already have. This is the considerations we need to take on board as MONEY seems to be the language all of you speak, not honesty in business and a level playing field. Which is disgusting at the very core of it. So be it.
Trust plays a MASSIVE part with CWI - and once broken is VERY difficult to regain, as long as I am at the helm of this business, about to be incorporated as a Proprietary Company. Money is NOT the focus, products and developments are. Due to this, we have stayed under the radar, but have also caught the eye of multibillion dollar corporations as well. Let's see how all this pans out.
As for YOU personally, I cannot speak on your behalf obviously, but the consensus is plainly that expectations and acceptance is the main core of what is wrong wiht the system of mining today. We WILL help combat this, but not when appreciation and acceptance is not part of the 'deal'. I unfortunately cannot accept developers being bought, and as such cannot accept such sentiments inour business. Luckily though there are quite a few (attested to the PM I have been receiving) that I really should not use the words 'THE BEST' but rather 'THE BEST at this monent in time' when referring to developers. There are always better, it is the price that unfortunately matters with most of them. There are plenty of these sorts of fish in the sea, but we are now after the mermaid, not those that can be bought.
As for the language barrier, I understand also, but you must realize that these ARE binding contracts on a verbal level when a PROMISE is made, whether in your example of husband and wife, or in the corporate world. A Bind is a BIND and it IS legal, regardless of your interpretation of it. I make no promises unless they are set in concrete.
Plans are different, where 'soon' or 'later' or 'possibly' comes into play. I come from the corporate world (which I despise with a passion due to the sellouts and backstabbing), so I have more than enough experience to know when things are a promise or a plan.
My promises are not broken.
CWIgm lives and breathes, and will see the light of day, one way or another. Will I 'promise' that? No way. This is all determined by what happens next and whether our code, similar or not, gets used elsewhere by the company that has now bought the prior dev to CWIgm.
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