That is a most unfair accusation, and I am not sure why you are making
it.
> [...]
I am worried that the OpenRISC ecosystem is increasingly gravitating
towards a private company. Most private companies don't really like open
source and tend to want full control in order to capitalize as much as
possible on the "investement", and that's what's happening here. Nothing
moves easily without the approval from payed employees/contractors.
Take for example the opencores e-mail list. It's rather new, and new
mailing lists tend to have few subscribers. However, it's touted as
having 1600 subscribers in the Wiki, which is probably a marketing
exageration to say the least. This is an excerpt from the Wiki:
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There is the web based OpenRISC forum by OpenCores.org, which has been
running since 2008 with 1600 subscribed users.
[...]
There are mailman mailing lists run by by OpenCores, for OpenRISC and
WishBone, which have been running since June 2011 with 1600 subscribed
users.
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Looks suspicious, doesn't it? In any case, most of its content has been
"stolen" from this list by cross-posting in the replies, and now you are
trying to force it on us by making it a policy for accepting patches.
I wasn't aware that people were automatically subscribed to the
OpenCores' mailing list when registering at OpenCores.org (mostly a
forced registration, in order to access the source code repositories). I
certainly wasn't automatically subscribed, maybe I unticked some box at
the time. In any case, saying that the list has so many users because
they are automatically subscribed to it by the registration procedure
sounds iffy too. It's the kind of marketing trick I have seen from
private companies in the past.
The OpenRISC project in general does not look healthy, little serious
development has been done in the past. I suspect it's hard to attract
third-party developers because the environment is not open-source
friendly. I certainly don't want my open source contributions to be
controlled by a private company in that way. Having full control of the
mailing list is risky, as they can filter out stuff they don't like,
like criticism to the company policies.
Regards,
Ruben
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