On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:55:41PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > You'll note that even in the initial part of the thread when Debian > folks were (generally) being polite, From the very first response: ] > and openness. ] You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it ] means. .. ] Not to poop on your parade, but please, next time you go to announce ] something to a technical list like d-devel -- drop the marketing guff, ] just stick to the useful info. -- http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg00052.html Further on in that subthread, after Erast extolls the virtues of OpenSolaris, there's Hamish's take: ] Why would this be of interest to Debian developers? .. ] I read all of your points as criticisms of Linux. That is ] disappointing. -- http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg00073.html Second top level response was Florian's: ] How do you solve the problem that you cannot legally distribute ] software which is licensed under the GNU General Public License and is ] linked against a libc which is covered by the CDDL? Have you ported ] GNU libc? .. ] This web site requires authentication. .. ] You should drop all references to the "Solaris" trademark because ] Sun's terms of use are anything but open (worse than Debian's). And ] of course, compliance with the GPL in all aspects is very desirable, ] too. -- http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg00065.html Does the above sound more like something fun you'd like to hack on with a coworker, or a complaint from a manager who just doesn't "get it"? Third top level response was Michael Banck's, which was mostly positive, then, but the rest of that subthread covered licensing problems, devolving into the exchange "The question is, are you going to pursue a legal action against Sun Microsystems?" "To which my answer was "yes".". > many of Erast's responses were at best antagonistic, > and at worst showed a complete disregard for what Debian is all about. Speaking of antagonistic... > This strikes me as a rather poor way to start a > relationship with someone, especially when you've just based most of > your userspace on that someone's source code. That's a very proprietary attitude about source code, don't you think? Cheers, aj
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