On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:45:42PM -0700, Thomas Lord wrote: > The release of Launchpad is no favor. It > is many years too late and it represents mainly > their abandonment of a failed plan to monopolize > project hosting for Debian. Presumably they > look forward to enjoying the fruits of free labor > keeping he Launchpad code going. The history > of launchpad is such (I speak from deep personal > experience) that it SET BACK the cause of a > truly distributed and decentralized software > project management system by YEARS. I can't just > laugh that off even if they slap AGPL on a > messed up code base that arose out of a corrupt > scheme. > > Meanwhile, they are re-applying the strategy in > UbuntuOne. This time, instead of trying to use > a centralized web service to gain power over a > few thousand developers, they are after power over > a much larger number of users.
Unfortunately, emails like this make me want to turn my back on free software. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/discuss
