[ros-dev] ***SPAM*** Goodbye Everyone...

[Brandon Turner]

KJKHyperion wrote:

> Steven Edwards wrote:
>
>>> Anyways, I believe it is time to start anew.  New project, different 
>>> name, different goals.
>>>   
>>
>> We seem to be a ship that is taking on water. The only consolation I 
>> can give you is that the old tree will be restored somewhere as per 
>> the vote. From there auditing should take place.
>>
> Voting is stupid. Auditing is stupid. Policies are stupid. Why is 
> ReactOS dying? because coders cannot code anymore. Here's your crisis. 
> All this trumpeting about the audit is stupid, and I seriously want to 
> kick in the face whoever actually believes in it. It's only a 
> convenient lie you all like to believe in
>
> For the love of god, unlock the repository and resume the coding. 
> Nobody wants the audit, and as it stands now it's completely useless - 
> if there's dubious code, let someone _else_ do the audit. In the USA 
> you have the DMCA, ok, but you have presumption of innocence too, so, 
> christ almighty, use it. Let _Microsoft_ waste resources trying to 
> demonstrate a copyright violation. Let them prove the reversing wasn't 
> clean-room, if that's even possible (let _them_ find out if it is). 
> You are digging your own graves, you don't even know who the "enemy" 
> is and have never faced it. This is suicide. Legally we were and we 
> are in no danger, you KNOW it's always been a matter of PR, but 
> someone HAD to fuck it up royally (hey Hartmut, please eat shit and 
> die. This is all your own fucking fault. Hope you're happy with the 
> outcome of your sissy drama) and turn us into instant celebrities. 
> Relax, chill, you cannot outdo Wine, PR-wise, they have investors, we 
> don't - so why act like we did do, with all the issues and none of the 
> benefits?
>
> We don't need good PR, we need fucking CODE. Wasn't becoming a ReactOS 
> developer a matter of trust and social networking? This used to be the 
> beauty of it, that you didn't have to sign away your soul to 
> partecipate. And I don't see what makes you believe that adding 
> barriers will be beneficial - has it ever worked? EVER?
>
> This is an open source project. Code is all that matters. No code 
> flowing in, project dies
>
> *****
>
> Mr. Project Coordinator, take some risks, show some balls, be a 
> fucking asshole about it if you have to, and recall the audit. It's 
> only been a glorious display of weakness and ineptitude so far. You 
> know it's killing the project while doing NO GOOD WHATSOEVER to it, 
> save for HYPOTHETICAL, FUTURE and all-in-all IRRELEVANT benefits
>
> Wine can ultimately suck dick, if that's what you're worried about. 
> They're using a public license, they cannot revoke it. So if they 
> don't like our policies, so long. We can parasite them, they cannot 
> parasite us, all their loss if they want to turn it into a one-way 
> relationship because mr. Investor has his ass itching about bad PR 
> from us and Alexandre has to scratch him
>
> Please let the code flow again. Let people do what they want to do
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Brandon