Re: Building a new home for GPE

Hi Nils,

Please don't be concerned about the hijack comment, I merely wanted
to explain how the situation "appears" to me.

It hadn't occurred to me that asking ltg members to explain in more
detail would cause further angst. I certainly haven't seen as much
information about the issue as I have in the last few posts, so I
thank you for taking the time to explain.

Marcus.

Nils Faerber wrote:
> Marcus Brown schrieb:
> [...]
>> Now that I've had a quick browse of ltg, I am reminded of a lengthy
>> argument on admin@ (etc) regarding Koen. It seems conceivable that the
>> idea of moving GPE has been precipitated by that event, and I find it
>> disturbing that similarly emotive attitudes have been used in this thread
>> to enable what appears to be a hijack of a major project and its sub-
>> projects from it current host. These techniques and attitudes do not
>> fill me with confidence or exude the freedom you speak of.
> 
> What makes you think someone wants to "hijack" anything?
> 
> First of all, this is merely impossible since we are talking about an
> open source project. It is and will ever be an open source project.
> 
> Hijacking means to take something away, or even worse, to blackmail
> someone with taking something away.
> 
> So, is anyone intending to take something away from anyone? I think not.
> 
> Is anyone asking someone for something in order to give the taken away
> good back? No.
> 
> So please do not use the term "hijack" since it does not at all reflect
> the truth.
> 
>> Excuse me for my ignorance, I merely wish to understand, not offend.
> 
> Me too, I would like to understand the problems that people see but
> until now I can only find bad suspicions about LTG paired with some
> paranoia and quite an amount of ignorance.
> 
> Real arguments by now have been:
> 
> - What are the benefits? I think we answered that lengthy enough.
> 
> - What is LTG about and what does it mean for GPE? I think we had that too.
> 
> - What would be the benefits for GPE? Also already answered in quite
> some length.
> 
> - Would it work and not fail, in technical sense? Yes it would, since we
> tested it already. We would not have proposed this if we would not have
> made this sure beforehand.
> 
> - Is someone trying to make large profits from it? We heard that an evil
> company is sitting on the domain "linuxtogo.org"? We also had that and I
> will not repeat the history behind that - just as short as this: It was
> a formal necessity, nothing more.
> 
> 
> At the moment there are only a few active GPE developers anyway.
> If this kind of discussion continues I am tempted to simply "copy"
> existing GPE (remember it is GPL/LGPL) and continue from there on. Then
> everyone can see and follow what is happening. There will be no hiding,
> no behind the scenes discussions or decisions. Everything is and stays open.
> 
>> Marcus.
> Cheers
>   nils faerber
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