John Gruber takes 'The Talk Show' to Mule Radio

Re:John Gruber takes 'The Talk Show' to Mule Radio by dlpasco on Friday May 18, 2012 @05:18PM (#3994053)

Hi there, I'm Dan, CEO of Black Pixel. I'd like to clear the air on this issue.

The application and the source code in question belongs to Black Pixel. We designed and developed the application in-house, at our own expense, and were going to license the binary for free, non-exclusive use on the 5by5 network, but that deal didn't work out.

Quite some time later, we got to know the folks at Mule Radio, and felt like there might be a good opportunity for our work to see the light of day. So we discussed things with them and licensed the binaries to them for use on their show.

So, to be clear, this app belongs to Black Pixel. We've never received a dime of money for it from anyone, because we wanted to have complete creative control over the product. We're happy that our app has found a home and are donating our time to support and add new features to the application as time goes on.

We hope you enjoy it.

-Daniel Pasco, CEO Black Pixel

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Re:John Gruber takes 'The Talk Show' to Mule Radio by awolf on Friday May 18, 2012 @05:37PM (#3994160)

You guys definitely should have refactored the class prefix and removed the 5by5 assets though, right?

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Re:John Gruber takes 'The Talk Show' to Mule Radio by lukeman on Friday May 18, 2012 @05:31PM (#3994140)

Thanks Daniel. The app is great, as we expect from you guys.

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Re:John Gruber takes 'The Talk Show' to Mule Radio by noir on Friday May 18, 2012 @05:47PM (#3994192)

Glad the app was able to see the light of day. It's a wonderful app and it's great that it was able to be used for a network, and people worthy of it.

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Re:John Gruber takes 'The Talk Show' to Mule Radio by lleims on Friday May 18, 2012 @05:36PM (#3994157)

Thanks for clarifying that.

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Re:John Gruber takes 'The Talk Show' to Mule Radio by b00gizm on Sunday May 20, 2012 @05:00AM (#3998343)

> We've never received a dime of money for it from anyone

"Fuck you. Pay me" - Mike Monteiro.

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Re:John Gruber takes 'The Talk Show' to Mule Radio by chmars on Friday May 18, 2012 @05:43PM (#3994181)

@dlpasco:

You have never received a dime of money for your app. So did you donate your app to the Mule Radio Network?

I had never heard of Black Pixel before. Now I know that you (or at least one of your developers) is rather of the lazy kind. Comm'on, renaming 5by5 to mule should have been a no-brainer!

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Re:John Gruber takes 'The Talk Show' to Mule Radio by jimray on Friday May 18, 2012 @07:27PM (#3994566)

Jim here, I work at Mule Design, host a show on Mule Radio and had the pleasure of working with the fine folks at Black Pixel on the app.

> I had never heard of Black Pixel before. Now I know that you (or at least one of your developers) is rather of the lazy kind.

You know what? It was a bug. Bugs happen. We actually discovered it a few days ago but, the app store being what it is, we couldn't get it swapped out in time. We have nothing but the highest confidence in Black Pixel and would jump at the opportunity to work with them again.

No one involved in this is being lazy and your insinuation is not only wrong and rude it's completely unnecessary.

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Re:John Gruber takes 'The Talk Show' to Mule Radio by chmars on Saturday May 19, 2012 @06:06AM (#3995596)

Duly noted, thank you.

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