Nuno, You are making perfect sense. Somehow the community needs to heal and move beyond the past. None of this is healthy and should be placed behind us. Let's heal this wound and move forward.
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Nuno Brito <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Eric, > > I don't feel like giving them an inch to operate anymore. >> > > > I noted your request at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/18/19 and was > looking at is happening: folks hiding websites, blaming each other for > stealing patches, private "clubs" to access the binaries but access to > source. In my opinion this goes contrary to what Free Software was intended > in the first place. But unfortunately, this happens everyday and way too > often. > > In fact, I felt it myself after releasing my first project as Free > Software just to see how competitors came up with "similar" features very > quickly, without really providing the code nor credits. In fact, this still > happens with my own software and I've learned to deal with it. > > On the other hand, this developer (despite what he writes in public) does > acknowledge that what he is doing is not correct, we just need to consider > his defensive actions: making the forum private, removing mirrors and so on. > > > I doubt that a legal action would ever happen on this case, I doubt that > in the long term we (as public end-users) would ever benefit from killing a > hobby project that so many others find useful. > > Don't get me wrong, I don't support closing down GPL code nor Linux. What > I mean is that everyone here might benefit from this situation if the > developer willingly becomes a compliant Free Software contributor, rather > than outlawed, hunted down and marked as "scum" (in his own words). > > > Eric, what about writing an email to Mr. Stallman about this situation? > > I don't mean an email calling for arms and legal action, but rather a > request to place this developer and Mr. Stallman in contact. Who knows? > Perhaps a friendly resolution can be found from this interaction. > > Would be a win-win situation. > > > With kind regards, > Nuno Brito > > > --- > email: [email protected] > phone: +49 615 146 03187 > >
