August 24, 2008 17:32
Whoa whoa whoa now people let's slow down here.
I didn't mean to imply anything about ActiveCaptain, though I did take his comments as an implied criticism of the legality of AyeTides and felt I had to respond to him. But this is getting out of hand now :o
ActiveCaptain is correct in that I said Mr. Tides is based upon XTIDE, but only to the extent that XTIDE is the inspiration to Mr. Tides. At the time I started Mr. Tides (1999, wow almost a decade!) there was no viable tide software for the Mac. I saw a niche, and I filled it - but with my own code, not Dave's. As Dave said on his site, Mr. Tides is a 'non-port' in that it used the harmonics files but that was all. Mr. Tides started as RealBasic, then moved to Objective-C when OS X came out. AyeTides in turn builds upon Mr. Tides and uses much the same code, but again it's all my code.
ActiveCaptain expressed a concern, perhaps not in the best way, about this issue, and I felt the need to explain myself. I know that both Rich and myself have been on this forum for a long time and we both have loyal fans of our programs (because we've been around a long time, and because we're both responsive to our users and generally helpful, or so I'd like to think), and I'm pleased to see them rise up to my defense. But I think in this case we can move on, remain civil to each other, and not discourage the open free-flow nature of the forums.
I hope this brings the matter to a close.
I didn't mean to imply anything about ActiveCaptain, though I did take his comments as an implied criticism of the legality of AyeTides and felt I had to respond to him. But this is getting out of hand now :o
ActiveCaptain is correct in that I said Mr. Tides is based upon XTIDE, but only to the extent that XTIDE is the inspiration to Mr. Tides. At the time I started Mr. Tides (1999, wow almost a decade!) there was no viable tide software for the Mac. I saw a niche, and I filled it - but with my own code, not Dave's. As Dave said on his site, Mr. Tides is a 'non-port' in that it used the harmonics files but that was all. Mr. Tides started as RealBasic, then moved to Objective-C when OS X came out. AyeTides in turn builds upon Mr. Tides and uses much the same code, but again it's all my code.
ActiveCaptain expressed a concern, perhaps not in the best way, about this issue, and I felt the need to explain myself. I know that both Rich and myself have been on this forum for a long time and we both have loyal fans of our programs (because we've been around a long time, and because we're both responsive to our users and generally helpful, or so I'd like to think), and I'm pleased to see them rise up to my defense. But I think in this case we can move on, remain civil to each other, and not discourage the open free-flow nature of the forums.
I hope this brings the matter to a close.