On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:57:36 +0300, you wrote: Hi Lucho,
>Do you see now why I retired from the FreeDOS development? Yes, sadly. >I view of all latest events I must say that however I admire Jack's >work, Shane, Eric and Jim are right. It was me who sent the "deleted" >XDMA to Jim to add to his ibiblio collection. Once a program is >released, the author has no longer power over it, especially if its >licence is such. It starts living its own life, sometimes better than >the life of its author. I must also note that it isn't good to discover >bugs in an open source project and keep that knowledge secret. After Jack only ask Jim to remove it, not the other (such as me). He don't want his work put on the same shelf as FreeDOS. I think the work around is make a folder "not a part of FreeDOS", but Jack did take his action so fast ... >all, users will benefit from fixing them. Well, if this was real >commercial competition between developers who gain money from their >work, then I could understand. But in our case, I simply don't get the >reason why those bugs should be kept secret! I wouldn't do this, if I >were Jack. As to Michael, I really don't understand his worry. Leave the >users decide which product to use; let the others do the product they >want. To all: Be above all quarrel, flames, etc. Peace!!! Sigh! I'm no laywer, solicitor. I guess maybe technically Jack violate the GPL (I don't really know), but I think from the very beginning of GPL spirit is from the author want to share the work with others, if the people did something to against the author, this action destroy the trust, even the law is correct, the "hatred" feeling started from the quarrel is wrong. >Why is peace impossible even in such a peaceful project as FreeDOS? Because we are human, can someone start to change? I didn't think Eric and Michael is "enemy", I hope they can concentrate the time and effort working on the project, beat me up didn't make them happier, if so, just do it. I don't mind to apologize to them, if I did something wrong to them >P.S. I give you my permission to send the above to the FreeDOS mailing list. Thank you. Rgds, Johnson. ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
