Re: The FreeRDP fork

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Jay Sorg wrote:

> I tried to talk to you about the plugin issues and got the answer "We
> don't feel it's necessary to discuss this further"
> Who is "We" and how can you be so disrespectful to ME?

We are Cendio, ie only 30% of the developers with commit rights. We can 
only claim our position on the matter. We are very busy so we must focus 
on which development topics to work on. You know it, open source work is 
voluntary, you are not *required* to participate.


> I have seen you disrespect several people over the years.  You have
> even publicly called Matt a "moron"

I would never do something like that. You must be mistaken.


> You tell people not to advertise on the mailing list but you do.

An email footer is OK with most people, if this is what you are referring 
to.


> Cendio has taken over this project and the community is lost.

I agree that the project is in a bad shape, and that we should worked 
harder on building a community. I do NOT think that Cendio has the sole 
responsibility for this, though. What about your responsibility, Jay? You 
joined rdesktop as a developer before we did. Why haven't you worked on 
integrating patches, recruiting developers etc?



> It's funny you mention VLC as it recently got pulled from istore because 
> it's GPL.

Yes, I know, this was expected. Apple is trying hard to exclude Open 
Source. There's a war out there. I see no reason why we should surrender.


> The plugin design is a perfect example of why the GPL does not work. 
> Running the plugin out of process takes a performance and memory hit. 
> Plus what is even worse than that is that it's a different interface 
> than what MTSC uses. We want to make the port from Windows to Linux as 
> easy as possible. FreeRDP uses the exact same interface that MSTSC uses.

It should be possible to provide the same interface by providing a stub 
library. This small glue code can then have a different license.


> Matt even said the plugin design should be a technical decision, not a
> license decision.
>
> The license should not be a obstacle.
> You will never be able to create the best RDP client possible using an
> out of process plugin design.

Again, we are only telling you how we feel about it.


Rgds, 
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