A handful of hard working dedicated people are keeping this community alive. Those people are going above and beyond the call, taking on a great challenge for no reward whatsoever. Many of them are kind enough to share information and to occasionally post on their progress.

However, there are those who seem to think its ok, so long as they're polite, to pester those hackers with endless posts along the lines of:

"Great work. Any progress?"

"How long do you think it will take?"

"I will be happy to beta test - drop me a PM"

and other equally asinine comments. I'm sure plenty PMs are flying, probably to the point that people like omni will stop even bothering with the PM system. Why do you think Maxxuss keeps such a low profile on these forums? Because he knows if he pops his head up he'll get bombarded with requests 'Maxxuss, you're a hacking god - please get my mouse / graphics card / network card / usb coffee warmer to work with OSX!' I dont blame him and others for wanting their peace.

I know we're all keen to see progress, but please people, try to remember that the guys doing the work owe us nothing, and if we pester them too much and expect too much of them, they might just not bother. And that would be sad for us all.

So please, wait patiently, and be mindful of the fact that we wouldnt have come so far without those few.

Here's to the crazy ones.


PS feel free to start 'hero worship' threads if you want to express gratitude, but DO NOT clutter up technical threads with stupid pointless posts.