[Android] championswimmer:
i don't understand why everyone is so interested in mudslinging ...

nobody cared to notice this ^^ post of mine where i explained why and in what situations this tool can be used...

(maybe because nobody had any good arguement to come up against it ??)

moreover... getting a little philosophical... what is development then ??

to be very frank.... the sort of "products" we see on xda are not any ground-up developments are there ???

now lets say there are many not-so-famous manufacturers who do not release the kernel source codes for devices they release (they get away with it because very few people use that device and no one complains enough)

now i didn't really see anyone on xda with balls enough to come out of his den and develop a kernel for such devices....

what does it take ?? all you need is to fork the latest linux kernel source code... get some inspiration from CAF to get ARM-specific codes and create a kernel that will work on the device... back in the old days developers for the HTC HD2 used to do that... because they ported linux kernel onto a device that originally didn't run on linux at all...

i do see a very experienced developer somewhere a few posts back up in my thread calling this a bad tool. now he knows much more about source codes and programming languages than i do (i'm a schoolboy, and i never learnt programming the conventional way), but i would certainly stick my neck out and ask him... what development he has done ???

taking source code already released by samsung and just adding some governors, schedulers, tun/tap support, vpn support, .... basically a bagful of features without which the phone won't really die...

in fact to get it straight on face .... we ALL here are hobbyists...

on the other hand those who REALLY know anything worthwhile about software development (android development to be precise) are employed by samsung/sony/motorola/google and are busy coding those very source code files from scratch that we take up in a finished form and make our own 'tiny little' modifications and feel proud off....

xda is not a place where Linus Torovalds, Andy Rubin and the likes share their piece of mind ...

we are people who love tinkering with our phones and if we think what we made in our spare time just for fun was worthwhile of being shared .. . we do so.. and we feel a little good when people use our works and praise us.....

moreover microwave ovens or ak-47's or kitchens do not make future devs turn into nobodies... someone who is destined to be a dev will surely become one... this just enables some noobs do 'a little more' than they can with their limited knowledge... and a handful of them start loving what they are doing and end up learning the 'proper method' too...

so basically i'm not teaching the genius to take a shortcut in the exam... i'm just showing the lazy backbenchers who are always cheating answers from the next guy how interesting it could be to write their own answers... of course the method i show them is akin to mugging up memorizing from a key-book... but a few might get interested and start writing their own answers only....

at the end of the day.. i leave it up to xda (the community as a whole) to decide if this thread is part of the solution or part of the problem.... and if thought as the later.. it can surely be closed/deleted.. and i would not cry 'CONSPIRACY'.. because i really have better things to do with my life than just this... lol