Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:13:35 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, aryeh.friedman@gmail.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community Message-ID: <200801101413.m0AEDZsb058894@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <47861CCD.7010707@gmail.com>
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Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > No, not necessarily. In particular, the BSD license does not > > enforce availability of the source to everyone, and it does not > > enforce anything else, except that the license may not be removed. > > > > That's not accidental, it's not a flaw, it doesn't need repair. > > It's intended. And trying to discuss to "repair" that is > > completely futile. > > Just a side question... if it is so complete why was there a need to > modify the orginal UCB version?... specifically there is no reason not > to discuss improvements. The modification that happened was to remove restrictions. What you propose is to add restrictions, which means that it would be less free. That's a step backwards and will not happen. > If the root cause of the OP's issues is lack of interest in older code The OP's posting rather sounds like regression testing and QA needs to be improved. > > > b) Contrary to it's charter -chat@ really is nothing except for a > > > flame redirect location (thus as far I can tell almost no one > > > reads seriously it) > > > > That's wrong. The chat list is being used for things that are > > off-topic on the other lists. Sometimes there are "flames" indeed, > > but that's a minority. > > I subscribe to it and have yet to see anything more then a 50/50 split > between real chat (and that is really not approriate for this > discussions a list for the legal/business aspects of freebsd would be) > and flames I don't think you're really reading it. I currently habe 336 threads in my freebsd-chat folder (dating back to Jan 1st 2006; older ones are archived elsewhere on my machine). In the past three months there was exactly one thread that was a flamewar. Your 50/50 number is completely wrong. In fact there have been more flamewares on -current than on -chat. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise.
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