Re: ion3 license

On 2007-12-18, Joerg van den Hoff <[email protected]> wrote:
> the  problem  is  that  you  WANT  something  

I want something and that increasingly appers to be the polar
opposite of what the FOSS herd wants -- and not only wrt. the
distribution of Ion.

> such a modification to the manpage or  something
> similar  would suffice to make your sole point

It doesn't. It has to be slammed on the users' faces. Maybe
that way 90% will get the message. Without it, maybe 10% gets
it.

> it's about  some  kind
> of  crusade  (the  historic as well as the contemporary ones
> have been notoriously successful endeavours).

Well, the FOSS herd is on a crusade against software they don't
consider "free", and don't care if choice and quality in software
disappears in the process of world domination by software with 
licenses acceptable to them.

> after   the   fight:  nothing  works  any  longer.   mission
> accomplished.

Nothing works ATM or in the past either. Distro release quality
control is a fucking joke. They just throw development snapshots
of marginal software in, and freeze them, expecting the authors
to deal with that.

> so, altogether, I think your goals for ion3 are ill-defined:
> make up your  mind  if  you  want  that  it  is  used  in  a
> significant  number  of  installations.  

I don't want to have anything to do with the FOSS herd and where
it's heading with its cherished software. That's why I'm switching
to Windows when it's time to upgrade.

> without  the  fighting the situation would be as it has been
> for some years: ion3 available and usable. 

Hardly. Most likely corrupted to use Xft, and thus not offering
usable fonts.

-- 
Tuomo