Re: Blocking Gmail ads
On 15/05/2008, Gregory Seidman <gsslist+debian@anthropohedron.net> wrote:
> Looks like Apple did terrible harm by devoting resources to improving the
> functionality and releasing them to the world, eh? Oh, but it isn't getting
> back to KHTML quickly, you say? That sometimes happens in a code fork.
Well, the rules (LGPL) say that they have to give back the code. Which
they did, in large chunks, a year later, in ways that were impossible
to put back into KDE. They didn't break any written rules, just didn't
act in a way that is traditional in the free software community. They
acted like a corporation would (this is not a compliment, despite what
the "profitable == moral" people think).
Forking is generally seen as a hostile falling apart within our
community. Forking happens with big disagreements, negative publicity,
and internal flamewars. Xemacs vs Emacs, XFree86 vs Xorg, Funpidgin vs
Pidgin... And I don't see Apple's forking as a friendly move either.
And it's taken a long time for KDE to benefit from it, and in the
meantime the whole thing caused flamewars within KDE.
Fiasco, I insist.
- Jordi G. H.
Reply to: