At 11:13 30/10/00 -0800, you wrote:
>I am sorry I went with a gift, cool technology already working, to the
>tomcat crowd and got massively burned by fanatism against "GPL". It was an
>interesting experience to just be spit on, insulted, thrown stones at and
>generally ridiculed by what seems to be a rabid group or JSP implementors,
>doing it all for sake of "open-ness" ... so much blood for religion
>((( imho
Well actually I am here for fanatacism for "GPL". I couldn't care less
whether you integrate with tomcat or not - I am sure it would be of benefit
but it is your choice. What I can not stand for is the fact that you choose
to undermine the integrity of the GPL. You show NO respect for GNU and
threaten a lot more opensource projects. If you are allowed to continue to
corrupt the GPL then others will do so and before long it will be devalued.
This is dispicable to say the least for any opensource developer regardless
of your opinions of GNU.
>The real thing that bothers me is that a group in the open source arena is
>actively promoting "fear" as means to an end, they are now talking of
>"intimidating us into change and twisting arms ...", wow amazing a bully...
it is not a threat to intimidate it is simple fact. You threaten the
integrity of the GPL and you should be stopped. I tried logic - you
insulted me and spouted a lot of misinformation. Next I will try to get RMS
to force you to remove the GPL. If that doesn't work I have no probelm
rousing a mob ;)
Now remember before you start saying I am anti GPL or pro Tomcat let me
just say both are wrong. I am not involved at all in tomcat dev and am very
pro GPL (in certain situations).
>My recommendation to them is to implement more APIs before trying to
>terrorize anyone, there is so much leverage they will have from "big
>brother" apache...
>
>So please hold fire for now, do not shot at them, they can't come in, the
>hordes will eventually turn back
>
>what was once Rome, has degenerated in the "middle ages", just hold on my
>friends ..
yea you. Feel good ? Hope so.
Cheers,
Pete
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