Nokia suce des bites en enfer !

Alexandre Boeglin <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:49:49 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.gpe
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Spécial dédicace pour YannStrass !


Le Samedi 19 Août 2006 13:08, Rene Wagner a écrit :
> On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 14:50 +0200, Nils Faerber wrote:
> > > but I do
> > > ask you to leave the applications I wrote (gpe-screenshot, gpe-life,
> > > gpe-mileage) where they are.
> >
> > That is not my choice, you have to ask George for that. I have no
> > intention to *remove* anything from hh.org.
>
> You misunderstood me on this one. I explicitely don't want anything I
> wrote to be hosted on or distributed by linuxtogo.org. If you do it
> anyway, it happens without my consent.
>
> > Then let's postpone this, say, for 4 weeks then, OK?
>
> It would be a start and will probably give more people a chance to
> speak up, but at the end of the day I'm afraid it doesn't change much.
>
> Sadly, in your original message, you already expressed your intention
> to ignore objections if there were "not many".
>
> > PS: Frankly I am pretty annoyed but the tone that is frequently coming
> > up from people in the vicinity of hh.org when it comes to discussions
> > and problems.
>
> I'm sorry if there was anything wrong with the message I sent, but
> offhand I can't think of anything other than bringing up some of
> the tiny details that you apparently did not want to become public.
>
> If you had had nothing to hide you would have complied with the legal
> requirements in the first place. It's funny how quickly the provisional
> "Impressum" (imprint) showed up on linuxtogo.org. Also you would have
> made the connections of linuxtogo.org to you personally and to
> kernel concepts GbR apparent in your original message.
>
> > So I formulated my proposal a little more decisive. But I want
> > to stress that I explicitely asked for comments.
> > It is impolite to then say that those suggestion will not be heard or
> > considered anyway!
>
> I'm afraid you forget to mention that your "proposal" was sent only
> after the fact. It doesn't seem likely to me that you will actually
> listen to objections against something that has already been done
> for the most part.
>
> gpe.linuxtogo.org was already live (it still is) and it's probably just
> a matter of importing the CVS snapshot Florian took the morning before
> you sent your original message to complete things (apart from the usual
> sed scripts and turning on the new mailing list).
>
> In his latest message to gpe@, Florian makes it very clear that it's all
> about control. You assert that GPE as a whole is your project, and want
> to have your project under your control on a platform you control.
>
> Many of the events that happened earlier this year suddenly make a lot
> of sense, most importantly the pressure that was applied on various GPE
> contributors to re-license their code under LGPL which allows linking
> against non-free applications.
>
> You have lost a lot of credibility and will have a hard time to convince
> at least me, and hopefully others as well, that the reason behind this
> is not solely to get the GPE project under your control.
>
> I urge all present and past GPE contributors to carefully (re-)consider
> the current situation and express their opinion. Speak up, say what you
> think!
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Rene, still with his GPE hat on and still not speaking for handhelds.org