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From: Peter Boettcher <boettcher@ll.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: FEX: the ML file exchange censored and stifled by the makers of MATLAB (TMW)
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"us " <us@neurol.unizh.ch> writes:

> "Matthew Simoneau" 
>> We have discussed the feedback that you and others have given
>> regarding the structure of this contest.  After a lot of discussion
>> and serious soul-searching, we have decided to let this contest
>> continue through Wednesday as planned.  You clearly have a different
>> vision for the correct use of File Exchange, which we built and
>> operate for our community&#8217;s benefit.  Ned described our
>> thinking here:
>> http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/248182
>> We encourage you to share your feedback on this thread.  Commenting
>> on individual submissions isn&#8217;t the right place for this
>> discussion.  We don&#8217;t want participants to feel intimidated
>> from participating...
>
> dear matthew
>  
> i ABSOLUTELY do NOT agree with your beauty-parlor reply!
>  
> as a matter of fact: you just - and very sadly so - have confirmed my
> opinion on the latest development regarding the FEX, which states in a
> nutshell: criticism is good - as long as it does not affect
> members/goals of TMW... (just look at the copious useless video
> submissions and pdfs by TMW members, all of which have not gotten a
> (deserved) one-star rating simply because people were anxious to not
> loose their license upgrade...)
>  
> as a somewhat longtime FEX/CSSM observer, i do ask you (ie, better
> your superior TMW officials) sincerely: why (then) did TMW accordingly
> deal with contributions/reviews of those submissions of a particular
> person called M....
>  
> do we deal with double-standards here - we (certainly) know we do
> not...
>  
> i most sincerely DO hope that TMW does NOT start to tweak the FEX,
> which - after all - is (intended to be) a public marketplace, to its
> (the money-monger company's lawyers) likings; albeit this unnecessary
> exercise does not to seem to bode well for the future...

Matt et. al.-

The problem is that you (TMW) are trying to have it both ways.  You
benefit greatly from the community investment and participation in
comp.soft-sys.matlab and in the FEX, and have invested a great deal in
leveraging that community.  However, the more you leverage the
community, the less it feels like a community and more like an outgrowth
of TMW, which will destroy it in the process.  Your comments suggest
"You're welcome to help us out, but we run the show".  Fine.  I have too
much other stuff to spend time on anyway.

-Peter