The guys who did the rest were users back then, too. At least as I understand it. But that's all just semantics in the end, isn't it. I am growing fond of the thought that it doesn't matter at all what things are called.
Well it was not. It was a project by a couple of guys (Craig, ED, MWeston, fatih, DaveC etc.) who took all the risk and did all the work (as far as the hardware is concerned, that is). In terms of software, you could call it a community project, but in terms of hardware production, it never was. Of course there was community input on the hardware design, lots of it, but in the end, the OPT made all of the decisions and did all the work. At least that's how I understand the history of the Pandora - I wasn't there to witness things first hand since I only got interested in it in early 2012, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
Yeah, that's basically it. I entered shortly after The Craginator was scrapped and the Pandora as it came to be had just started, and there were polls asking for input but for the most part they did what they felt best, based on the input. That's how I see what ED is doing now and I couldn't be happier. The one truly democratic thing that had full community involvement was the keyboard layout, and that was a hideous mess of polls upon polls with polls about polls. Seriously, that is not the way to run a project. What I see ED doing now is as much a community project as the original Pandora, except instead of having to ask "what do you guys think about X?" he's got an entire forum where people have voluntarily debated everything over several years. The community has spoken, it's all right here, now we just have to trust in EvilDragon's ability to listen
That makes me want Pyragon even more..
Yep. Even in democratic society like the US, the people vote all they want. At the end of the election, it's the electoral votes that really count
I'm saying that if you had reasons to call the Pandora a community project then you should be happy calling the P2 a community project, knowing that it is just as community oriented as the original.
Cool. _wb_ threw me off there for a while.
No worries.It's not as obviously community oriented as the P1 where we had questions and polls and a lot of debates in the span of just a couple months whereas the P2 discussion has been going on for years and just kind of debating whatever we felt like whenever we felt like it, but the discussion is still here, the polls were still made, ED is taking it all into consideration, he's just being the executive in charge of the community.
Hmmm I kinda like dreambox.
Yep.. completely unrelated product and it's kinda discontinued anyway. unless they own the copyright on the name?
So.. you want the name to be Dragonbox Dreambox? I took it for granted that the former is a given. The combination is silly.
Dragonbox Dreambox Miriad.
