Re: Ubuntu Migration

With reading the replies it appears that the main issue that you guys 
have is your belief of free software.  So far I have not seen anything 
inherently wrong with  MEPIS except with how it is licnsed.  Is this the 
case?

Matt

Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote:

> Matthew D. Melbert wrote:
>
>> I will be the first to apologize for that announcement.  Warren and 
>> myself are not very happy about that one.  Neither of us have posted 
>> it.....and I do not have the power to remove it...Warren may remove 
>> it from the front page if he remembers to.  Neither of us like direct 
>> comparisons with other distros.  As Warren said in our conversation 
>> it goes beyond comparing Ubuntu vs MEPIS....it goes down to KDE vs 
>> Gnome and we dont like to get into those things.  On a personal note, 
>> and I speak soley for myself, I didnt even think the review was a 
>> very good review.  It was heavily biased and flat out rude.  Again 
>> personally I dont think that review deserves to be on the front page 
>> of the MEPIS site especially since it pushes our newsworthy stories 
>> lower down on the page.  MEPIS attending LinuxWorld Boston and our 
>> new test releases I believe are much more important then that 
>> review.   Of course one of our blackeyes had to be on this night. 
>> UPDATE:  I just called Warren back and asked him to remove the 
>> article from the front page.  We both agreed that it was in 
>> appropriate for that article to be placed on there.  It has been 
>> removed from the front page.
>> Matt
>
>
>
> Good save of face.  One question:  Did Warren ever relinquish his 
> bitterness about his run-in with the KDE developer ( 
> http://www.mepis.org/node/view/99 ) and release his own source code 
> under some sort of Free Software licensing?   I find this an ironic 
> twist, since it was KDE that was originally adversely effected by 
> their own relationship with TrollTech, who eventually submitted to the 
> persuasion of Debian ( http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008 ) to 
> change their licensing in a way acceptable to Debian's inclusion in 
> their own distribution.  :-D
>
> Warren did mention in his talk that his applications could be easily 
> replicated by a competent programmer, and I don't disagree with this.  
> However, for many people this is a proverbial slap in the face, since 
> it is Mepis LLC that first benefits from Free Software, not the other 
> way around.  Please fill us in on the present status of this matter, 
> and maybe it will become a rewarding relationship.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Jonathan
>
> p.s.  1.  Since Morlug's last meeting we are now formally known as 
> Morlug "again" .. not Morlug/Morfree or Morfree/Morlug.  2.  It would 
> really be nice to see you or Warren, or both or you at our regular 
> meetings.
>
>>
>>
>> Brian Pack wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday 03 February 2005 08:57 pm, Matthew D. Melbert wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>> Reading you threads sometimes really make me wonder about your group
>>>> sometimes.  I know this is the morlug/morfree group, and there may be
>>>> some differing viewpoints, but I still cant stop wondering why you 
>>>> guys
>>>> do not take advantage of the opportunity you guys have in your
>>>> "backyard".  I constantly hear everyone talking about other distos and
>>>> never hear a breath about MEPIS.  Working with Warren Woodford I do 
>>>> know
>>>> that I have biased opinion about this topic but I still have to wonder
>>>> if there is something fatally wrong with MEPIS to not ever hear a
>>>> mention of it.  Is there anything wrong with MEPIS...if there isnt I
>>>> think that there is a heck of an opportunity being wasted....if 
>>>> there is
>>>> something wrong I would like to hear about it so that we can have a
>>>> chance to fix the issues and make a more desireable product.
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It's not very appealing when the top announcement is a user writing 
>>> to slam another distro. How is that *news*? Ubuntu isn't the enemy. 
>>> Neither are Knoppix or SuSE. If there is an enemy, it's the monolith 
>>> out of Redmond.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
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