On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >Bernhard doesn't limit work to one single project, but he does contribute > >code to lots of different ones. So I don't think "the RH Germany guy" is > >much different... > > ??? > > The project in question does not contain a single line of contributions > from him.
Actually I remember sending you a patch to get it to build with glibc 2 when it was new, and I think it got in. I don't mind that you forgot, I don't keep track of everyone who contributes to my projects either, especially if it's just a couple of oneliners. > I know not a single Free Software project he started/maintains. Then I can understand why you're angry at me. Well, you have a wrong picture of me, probably because I prefer coding over bragging about it and because I work mostly on other stuff than you. For the record: - I'm the present maintainer of GNU grep. - I started and maintain CLAP (a C++ class library), NoSpam (a spam filter), kcmlilo (KDE frontend for configuring the LILO boot loader), kwuftpd (KDE frontend for editing wu-ftpd's ftpaccess files) and a couple of other tools, and I'm currently working on a (not yet released) new installer that helps newbies install Linux. - I'm a frequent contributor to KDE, Qt and wu-ftpd. - I've contributed some nontrivial code to a lot of projects, including wine, ncurses, GNU tar, CUPS and man - I've contributed small fixes to countless projects, including the Linux kernel, netkit, ncftp, GNU fileutils, ..... > But let us assume he is involved in Free software projects, what it the > difference to me I don't write proprietary software. > except that I know of a lot of other free software from me > (the most popupar is thew oldest free TAR implementation "star") and I know > of no free software from this guy. Because we happen to focus on things you probably don't care about. If you don't know what someone did, don't assume he did nothing. > >> >I won't support closed-source binaries though. > >> If you like to protect leading edge SW you sometimes need. > > >protect? > > I don't like to describe it again, plase just read other threads that > proove that GPL does not protect softweare from being stolen. So releasing proprietary software to prevent others from doing it is the right thing to do in your opinion? What about killing a random person in the street to make sure nobody else can kill him? Pretty much the same thing if you ask me. LLaP bero -- This message is provided to you under the terms outlined at http://www.bero.org/terms.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
