lmoroney

If you are coming to this thread, please go back to the GitHub thread that it is linked to, and see updated statements from Oz, including an apology for accusing me of stealing his idea.

I won't claim any expertise in the licensing side of things -- but there's a fully working product there that people can take a run with. If you want to build a business on it and thus grow this, AFAIK, the Apache 2.0 license permits that.

That was always my goal with this -- my team is not in the business of product development. Still, there was (and is) an opportunity to build the basis for an app that the community could either maintain or an entrepreneur could use.

Either way, if it spreads the tech far and wide to help more people like Lance, we all win.

That's really sad.

We wanted GameFace to be something that we kickstarted and then donated to the community to run with. That's still the case.

Please see my statement above. I started this project long before I met Oz. And when I met Oz, I had a very specific technical requirement that I hoped his library could fix, and then we could lift up his library as a solution instead of building our own. Unfortunately it could not, and at that point the discussion ended.

Professor Levin is welcome to contact me, if he wants to learn the truth.

That's a lot of projection with very little fact.

If anything I'm ashamed of the sheer volume of personal time, money, and effort I put into helping build and enable community, only for accusations like this to lead people to believe all kind of false things about me to the extent that they'll write me horrifying emails, and speculate on Ycombinator about my motives!

While I'm not a perfect person, indeed, I am far from it, I did not perpetrate any injustice here, and I resent the accusation.

I wasn't 'tagged' on a thread, and I didn't learn about it until it was posted on here.

It is the truth that I was out on vacation at that time, and largely incommunicado, or at least I was supposed to be until these false allegations arose.

It is the truth that it was, and continues to be, massively distressing to me to be falsely accused like this.

It is the truth that I paid (out of my own pocket) for a blue check, because in the new Twitter that gets me 10x engagement, and I've always used my platform to enable and lift up others. That's what makes these accusations, and the follow-on abuse and attacks over email and otherwise so distressing.

I'm standing by those truths.

It wasn't stolen. See my above statement.

We supported Oz in the ways that we could.

I wasn't made aware of it until the HackerNews posting, and I was on vacation then. I'm back now, and I posted a statement above.

I would like to take a moment to address claims that Project Gameface was inspired by anything other than the incredible story of Lance Carr. As we’ve mentioned in previously shared documentation, Project Gameface was the direct output of Lance’s experience and a desire to make the world of computing even more accessible.

When Oz approached me, I was already working on what would become Project Gameface, and had a specific technical problem that I was trying to solve. Oz showed me his impressive demo, and we chatted briefly about the problem I was having. Unfortunately Handsfree.js could not solve it, and thus I didn't use Handsfree.js in any capacity.

As I mentioned to Oz when we spoke, I wish him the best with his open source work. Finding new ways to make computing more accessible is an important space that I hope many projects are successful in.