On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 10:34 -0700, Auke Kok wrote: > > This thread is completely bullocks, please don't send this type of stuff > to this list: > > 1) the EU regulations are not in effect outside of the EU, so Xfce has > all the rights they have to distribute software which might violate EU > regulations, if the intended target isn't specifically the EU (Like the > other 5.6 billion people in the world). > > 2) The EU regulations apply to "devices". This law only therefore is > applicable to people who distribute "devices". "Software" distributors > may be asked by "device" distributors to comply, but that's about it. > > 3) Nothing forces anybody to spin down drives if the drives consume less > power than the EU regulations require (yes, I read the entire german > article). > > 4) This is an issue that should be solved in the gvfs project. Proposing > to drop gvfs entirely is so incredibly out of proportion that your > message only makes things worse. > > 5) You can patch gvfs yourself, it's open source, dammit. > > 6) Xfce is WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. Please read the copyright > message in every file/project. Nothing in Xfce says that it's intended > to comply with any legal regulation. > > 7) Every user has the legal right to run Xfce or any of their own > software, including software that violates EU regulations, because those > regulations generally only apply to commercial distributors, and not > people tinkering with their own systems. This is commonly legally put > under "educational" use. > > ... I could go on like this for a while ... > > If you want to make some progress to actually fixing the problem, do it > the right way and don't throw around bogus legal threats, please. > > 1) file a performance/power consumption bug directly against the gvfs > project upstream > 2) do not mention local regulations or stupid legalities that you do not > understand, instead say "we could save power" > 3a) fix it yourself or > 3b) get someone to fix it for you > > > Regards, > > Auke
Hi Auke, reconsider that the drives of many Linux users already failed and just a minority is able to fix the issue them self. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Format#Special_Consideration_for_WD_Green_HDDs Thank you, for the good atmosphere for reporting an issue. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
