On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:48:30 +0000 LeeE wrote: > > The oddest thing I found was a reply from Shad Young to Tim Moore > where he said "My sincere apologies. It was not my intent to > offend". > > The reason I find this odd is because Tim Moore was just pointing > out that the conditions of use for a web-site/repository, to which > Shad Young had referred as being an example of MSFS open-source > work, actually had restrictions that were not compatible with > open-source. > > I could see no indication of any offence whatsoever being taken by > Tim Moore and I remember that when I first read it I thought it was > a bit of a strange and inappropriate reply. Nothing I lost any > sleep over though.
This sums up my reaction too. I was actually curious whether the GPL,
or other licensing terms like it, had made any penetration into the
MSFS community; so I asked what he meant by open source in the MSFS
community. The "apologies" reply really threw me for a loop.
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