Smoke is not a closed system… it supports EDL.  The pre releases don’t feature any xml, aaf or even the old publish workflow.  How that develops remains to be seen.  Not a fair comparison to FCPX in my opinion.

Sounds like a good explanation to me and hopefully Mike will forgive you for such and cease his urge for the cussing!* Yup CFX is fantastic and if I ‘had’ to make the choice I would choose there (CFX).... but there can certainly be “MORE” instead of simply “OR”

Yes from the early days in the public beta of almost constant presence there does seem to be a bit of a silence from ‘the authority’ (to not too opaquely refer to ‘True Blood’, which still has an “Inferno Artist” in the credits). I remember remarking on how ‘fresh’ it was that such activity was then widespread here and there could certainly be some more ‘intervention’ into such conversations, polemics and debates that are happening here. I was most shocked when I saw a reply from Philippe Soeiro in a few early beta posts and thought at the time that you wouldn’t get a reply from one Randy Ubillos re the FCP.

*btw, if you can’t cuss, are you not allowed to ‘cuss-in-code’ or is that out of bounds with no use of “**” in the middle of certain fourish letter words?! Personally I think that cussing can add some atmosphere to an argument and as long as it is not directly in the face of another (i.e. “you utter ******") but instead directed at an object then it’s not exactly like swearing on children’s tv?!

Not to defend… but to explain, there is the private beta forum as well, also Flame is in beta as well as Smoke.
I know that Marc Hamaker is on vacation based on his tweets, and Ken and Marc-Andre’ have been busy gearing up and working IBC.  And Fred has taken some vacation time as well this summer.

As far as cussing. It’s frowned upon, and I don’t know the instance Mike was involved in.  I get your point, but with a global audience, language can be a funny thing.  Best to play it safe. :)

Yes, Mike please reconsider. We want you back.