On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 01:22:57PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: > After the FSF zealots flamed Tim Bird and Sony to a crisp: > > https://lwn.net/Articles/478308/ > > The various corporations interested in toybox have been VERY quiet about > it. They email me off-list and read me the Mission Impossible speech > about the secretary denying all knowledge if we're caught and their > involvment self destructing in 5 seconds if so. > > I tried to correct the record in the comments, ala > https://lwn.net/Articles/480382/ and https://lwn.net/Articles/480836/ > but it didn't help. The FSF is a group of political zealots bordering on > a religion, the old line applies about how you can't use rational > argument to talk someone out of a position they didn't arrive at > rationally in the first place. The best I can do is try to prevent the > next generation from following them down the rathole (hence the Ohio > Linufest talk, which I really need to redo. I had 3 hours of material > and a little under an hour to speak, and that was _after_ spending a > week trying to edit it down.) > > So I've gotten a lot of off the record emails with very interesting > data, and various people going "we really need this, can't say why" and > I do my best with the information I've got to keep the project on track...
For the record, I first heard about toybox when groklaw had some article complaining about toybox (after that whole blow-up), read the project site instead of the complaints, and decided that I'd look for a chance to contribute. Thanks, Isaac Dunham _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
