Re: ion3 license

On 2007-12-18, John Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> No, the fix should be at the root of the problem.
> i.e. your licence?

The distros' practises.

> Are you talking about Xinerama support here? - the mod which works fine,  
> doesn't cause probles on non Xineramra desktops 

It doesn't work fine. It can't.

> but you have some bizarre  
> notion is amoral on some grounds I've never quite grasped?

Morality is bullshit. Religion in disguise.

> As you don't maintain a "stable" branch 

Utter and total BULLSHIT. Ion2 is the stable branch. But the idiots
behind the distros think they know better than the author, which
releases are stable -- meaning bug-free, not "static" as the distros
apply the term.

> I really don't know what your problem is with AA or udev: Correctly done  
> AA actually helps text

AA makes text ugly, blurry, and unreadable, compared to decent unblurred
screen fonts. It only helps with shoddy printer fonts--which are no good
without hinting on present poor screen resolutions. But the herd just
loves anti-aliasing and all other new/modern shine, and expects everyone
else to do so too, and crams it down their eyes.

> udev doesn't exactly kick up a stink.  

Try adjusting device permissions, symlink names, anything. It's pain
compared to just chmod/chown/ln -s. The cryptic config files also
change all the time in the distros, and it takes ages at boot. 
(Its designed hac a complete lack of understanding of the fundamentals 
of computer science, doing a linear search for the correct rules by 
executing 10000 lines of shell scripts, instead of constructing 
appropriate search trees.)

> Ah - you're feeling opressed.  Then again you seem to feel victimised by  
> most walks of life if your blog is anything to go by. I think that's  
> mostly how you view the world.

Modern technology mostly sucks.

> non-monoculturist? So you'll support xinerama, anti aliasing, udev now  
> will you? Rather than declaring them all to be anti-tuomo.

No, I provide (preferrably abstract) mechanisms for others to support 
them.

> So you're unable to take a shoddy patch and apply the correct fix to your  
> own code? That seems pretty feeble

It's more work for me to maintain all that code. The FOSS herd has not
yet grasped the two fundamental principles of maintainable software:
modularity and abstraction (cf. abstract wchar_t and locale encoding
vs. hard-coded UTF-8.)

-- 
Tuomo