[WARRiOR520]

Juk,
I am sorry, I am trying not to be hostile, I just thought I had politely asked people with nothing encouraging to say to just use their powers of choice and choose another thread to participate in. It just annoys me to hear someone say that in 'real life software development' so and so happen and no one redoes any work at all.. .well thats part true I happen to know most programmers, like me, would rather not reinvent the wheel, but if the wheel isn't open-source your not really reinventing it, your inventing an open version of it that can be used with other projects.

Honestly I have been more discouraged by the fact that I could spend all this time on something, and then have people get on my case because I might take a chunk out of PT's millions (that number made me sick as well, this is a simple statistic program... there are many huge contributors to the Linux OS that made all of that work a possibility, that are struggling to make ends meet, they also will humbly state that the maturing of linux was more important than a mansion for their small family.) I know that among poker players this is a hard concept to grasp, and I should not bother hoping that the open source sentiment will be shared here because for the most part the average jow here doesn't even care what open source has done for the internet, and software in general... he paid for his version of windows, plays online poker and wonders what the hell open source ever did for him. I on the other hand have been involved with the open source movement and Linux basically since I was old enough to understand how to format a 'useless' windows hard drive and install Linux so I cannot ignore it in this fashion. Again Juk I really do appreciate your input and I am sorry for the hostility, it was surely not aimed at you.

For any other poker enthusiasts who have any form of software development or even just some simple programming experience please take a minute to send me a quick PM. I am looking to create a type of sourceforge for poker related projects, complete with forums and other various extras to make useful collaboration on poker projects slightly less painful, and hopefully move us into a new level of understanding of both the game, and our craft.