There are a few people on this forum who seem think that CHDK should be the only version and that it is far superior and should have as many bells and whistles as possible. It would be nice if these people show some respect to those who think otherwise.
Funny, if you replace the "CHDK" with "SDM" in your sentence, it'd actually make sense.
I don't think that David, me or any other user of SDM has ever said anything remotely pointing in that direction.
I have a lot of respect for any developer who works or has worked on CHDK and I think that both versions should remain, each serving their own public.
I've only been here a short while and have not yet seen a useful contribution from microfunguy apart from "use my forked project" -- IOW I see SDM and its commercial spinoff as a parasite project fork, taking ideas but failing to contribute.
Hits the nail on the head. That, and that alone, is what "some people" here do not like.
This I don't understand.
David has never made any money out of SDM.
In fact, I and other users of SDM have tried to get him to accept a donation for all the effort he puts into it but he refused saying:
SDM builds on the work of so many other people, especially Andrei Gratchev (GrAnd) and even more especially the unknown 'VitalyB'.
But even if he would (what again, he is not), the GPL licence states:
"When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish)."
So don't see how bugsplatters comment hits the nail on the hat.
Agreed, there are some commercial spinoffs like Z-bars to mount two cameras together for stereo photography and remote control switches but you can hardly blame David for that.
Besides, some of these are also offered for the regular CHDK and I don't hear anyone complaining about that.
