NRG, I definitely am not trying to take credit for any of your work. I know I have PM'd you before asking to work with you on a lite rom. I also many moons ago keyed some, including you I believe, about cooking certain packages into XIP. I have even asked you if you'd like the remixed HTC Action Screen .brn files that match your rom theme, & I posted a pic in your 6.5.5 thread.
I don't intend to remix every rom you cook. I only intended to get an idea about what is out there, why people like it & how or if I can optimize it & then share that information.
I don't ask for any donations & encourage everyone to donate to the original chef or to XDA. I don't intend to learn anything about cooking through dumping & remixing your rom, except maybe what types of compression work best with different libraries and/or executables. In fact I have been cooking rom for years, but because of the lazyness in attitude of the site I have never been much for publicly publishing. There are a few people I would share my roms with, such as ATW or P1Tater or The General aka Ramon. I never had the time to properly support a rom, so I'd only cook it for those sharp enough to find errors & make or suggest corrections for themselves.
The only reason I chose your rom, is because I personally enjoy the style. It has a certain "elegance in simplicity to it", that's it period. How it downward spiraled into what the thread became is because my HD crashed after uping to 7 & I did not have a recent image to restore so I was down for several days. Left me without being able to really control anything & was unfortunate.
On another note, I have twited you about certain graphics, fixed the 3-row cab error for one of your first Rhodium roms, & have tried to support you where I can including asking if you'd like the remixed .brn files for a matching HTC Action Screen in bot twit & your 6.5.5 thread.
Honestly, the fact that I used your rom first was meant as a tribute, not an attack or slam. I merely wanted to provide an already excelent with different types & combinations of compression & also to see what packages & basic styles people like & what people thought should be stripped for add on as a cab or package for later use in a noobie style kitchen.
True, I understand more about the OEMSBL, Radio, Bootloader, base firmware than I do about the OAL & the frontend parts of OS, but I am not trying to learn to cook. I can read & understand the principles behind most anything as I have been following XDA since before my first BlueAngel & personalizing my own roms since then as well. I know about ULDR removal & the consequences, future upgrade packages being unable to uncompress &/or load without ULDR section. The point is, I am not some idiot trying to steal your work. My intention is to take the best of the best, remove what is not essential. Pracitce different techniques of compression, re-writting of code or other optimization & then sharing this info with all that are interested by creating packages that are new, lean, & most importantly optimized for use with the hardware of the RHODIUM & it's driver packages.
Yes, I may also occasionally rework a rom by removing some info in the hives, modify graphics, or compress or write small changes, but in no way do I intend to compete with any particular chef. I just want to promote learning & users taking control of fixing there own issues & contributing back to the community. As you know, chef's threads are full of dumb questions, slam & critiques. Most chef's & mod's hate this. I do too sometimes, but I love criticism when it also includes a solution or a good idea. That's what I want, what we all would like I think.
I'll tell you what. In the future, I will tell the chef ahead of time what if I plan on doing a re-mix & I will ask you, or whomever, for their HTML code for their DONATE button, so that any donations, which I do plainly discourage in my thread, unquestionably go to the person that has put the time in.
How's that sound?
