>Anyway - the whole point of my post was to contemplate why the >people who do a lot of hard work in releasing addons don't get >together more often and collaborate -I think the answer is 'Control'.If you don't collarate all the design decisions are yours, you follow your design philosophy. You don't get into disputes with other developers on the team about how certain tasks should be done,what tools should be used, or what features are given the most importance.In these collaborations you speak of (767PIC,DF etc) for the most part no single person could have completed the project, they by necessity had to collaborate.Alhough,I'm sure there are many collaborative projects and simply end un-completed because of philosophical differences between team members.A product has feature implemented one way, another developer looks at the same feature and says it would work better if implemented another way. If both developers were on the same project one of those views would have to be taken in favor of the other, this an area ripe for problems and disagreements. In projects where there is a clear leader and team members are commited to follow the project leaders lead it works well. This is more often the case in Commercial projects.But when Freeware developers get together they often have more equal partnerships, this is when you can have some philosophical differences.Regards.Ernie.

I think this is one of the reason between fligh1 and reality xp for the Meridian: to provide the best of each in a collaborative project. I'm pretty sure many more will follow and will bring better add-ons for the money.