On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:44:29AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 11 Jun 2002, at 22:21, Peter Graf wrote: > > > > > Obvously not knowing he GPL. > > I'm afraid that the discussion about GPL (and whether I know it or > not) will lead us too far astray. Let's just say that I will abide by my > opinion on it.
you do not have an opinion on it. You just plainly refuse to think about a reasonable license. > > The current scheme is the best way to further split the QL world. Open > > source might re-unite SMSQ/E with other parts of the QL world, and > > developers who have previously not worked for it. > > I don't believe that for a semi-second. > No people who have not previously worked for SMSQ/E will > suddenly come out and say "hey, a great new licence, let's do > wome work under it". this is deceiving at best. Some serious developpers (not me) already explicitly wrote on this list that may contribute to SMSQ depending on the conditions of the new license. I do firmly believe that this *was* the chance to overcome the split between QDOS, Minerva, QDOS Classic and SMSQ. > > >To be quite frank, the opposition between the defenders of "code > > >freedom" and the sinister "lobby" preventing the good code to escape > > >into that freedom is so exaggerated that I can't help but laugh about > > >it. > > > > Better read just what I say and don't build fairytales beyond that. If > > you want Q60 SMSQ/E development, allow open source or at least a > > compromise. > > Oh, I have read exactly what you said, and my answer still stands. So you still laugh about it? Well I sure did have a few nice laughs about your perception of software development, licensing, copyright issues, GPL and a few other things. Perhaps we would get a bit futher with more humor. However, simply laughing at someones arguments isn't the way to convince me, quite the opposite - especially since you have left a whole bunch of my arguments simply unanswered. You are the one presenting ridiculous arguments here so that turns up the question why you don't present reasonable arguments - I am not at all surprised someone smells conspiration. I think you could dispel those concerns quite easilly if you would take arguments seriously instead of laughing at them. Richard
