[pvrusb2] How do I say thank you?

[Mike Isely]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, devsk wrote:

> Hats off to you Mike! I haven't met you personally, but you are one of 
> the most cordial guys I have interacted with online.

Thank you for the complement.  But in all fairness others probably 
wouldn't say that.  I've had my share of passionate "discussions" on a 
few other mailing lists and the occasional IRC channel.  I guess it 
depends on the situation :-)


> 
> Thank you so much for taking pains in replying to all those queries 
> people throw at you! And foremost. Thank you for this wonderful 
> driver!

On the other hand, I've been where all you folks are, and I've also had 
experiences, as a user, with other less-than-helpful developers.  So I 
always try to remind myself not to be that way.  After all you all are 
just trying to make things work, and I didn't publish the driver just to 
antagonize the user community!  I started this originally because of a 
single plea for help years ago, and I happened to have the right 
hardware laying around.  After years and years of benefitting from Linux 
I thought the time was overdue to try to give something back.  And so 
here we are.

I always appreciate the feedback and I'm glad that I've been successful 
in actually giving something back.

Since it was asked, then perhaps as "payment" consider what you can do 
to help out others in the community in some way befitting what your 
particular strengths might be.  Everybody has something they can 
contribute - testing, development, documentation, information 
collection, ideas, leadership, design, or even just hand-holding for 
other confused users.  The trick is to identify your strength(s) and 
then offer it up.  Do that and I'll consider your "debt" paid :-)

  -Mike


> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mike Isely <isely at isely.net>
> To: Communications nexus for pvrusb2 driver <pvrusb2 at isely.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 8, 2008 5:39:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [pvrusb2] How do I say thank you?
> 
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Siddhartha Jain wrote:
> 
> > Hi Mike,
> > 
> > I've been using the pvrusb2 driver for a long time now to run MythTV
> > and I would like to thank you for supporting this device. How does one
> > thank you for writing and supporting this driver? An amazon wish list,
> > maybe? :-)
> 
> This note is plenty.  Don't worry about, and I'm glad you've been able 
> to make good use of the driver!
> 
>   -Mike
> 
> 

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