[ros-dev] ***SPAM*** Goodbye Everyone...
Brandon Turner
turnerb7 at msu.edu
Thu Feb 16 14:55:29 CET 2006
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
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