On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:53 AM, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote: > Scott Randby <sran...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On 01/22/2015 05:02 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: >> >>> Now the question is: what is the most appropriate place to *inform* >>> about his project. If not the Org-mode discussion list, I really don't >>> know. (I assume that nobody denies his *right* to license his work >>> according to his wishes, of course, for if not, another explanation >>> would be that this project doesn't have any right to *exist* in the >>> first place.) >> >> Since we cannot view the code of this software, then we have no way of >> determining before we use it if it has any purpose other than its >> stated purpose. For all we know, it contains some nasty code that >> takes over your system and deletes all of your files or worse. >> >> To trust this software because the developer seems to have good >> intentions is foolish. When I saw the announcement, I interpreted it >> as saying this: "Gee, here is some neat software I wrote. You can't >> see the code, but trust me, I'm good. I'll open up part of the code >> maybe sometime, but for now you can try it out for free. I'm not going >> to cut you off later and make you pay to continue using this wonderful >> thing. And no, it doesn't do anything bad like steal information or >> trash systems. Trust me." No thanks, I say. Promote this somewhere >> else. > > I just want to state here that not everybody feels the same as you.
I wasn't expecting that everybody would feel the way I feel about the matter. It is clear from the discussion that some feel fine with this software because it is alleged to do something desireable. I don't feel fine with it because it is closed, and I have the same distrust of the other pieces of proprietary software that have been promoted on this list through the years. Scott > > Cheers, > > Rainer > >> >> Scott Randby >> >> > > -- > Rainer M. Krug > email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de > PGP: 0x0F52F982
