Until now I've resisted on commenting on this little Icecat family fall-out between some of the family members :-)
I can see some reason in all the points being made from all parties - some perhaps more plausible/evidential/or whatever, than others. For my two-penneth single point gut-feeling view (not just for Icecat either), I would not expect to see community contributed open-source etc effort to develop/build for platforms and so forth where commercial gain/interest is involved (usually for a minority few too). I would expect it to be low on priority if it was part of any work, unless there was some mandated, agreed and valuable reason to. Yes I know, sometimes it helps to do so, but I'm not sure in this case. I really appreciate all the clever people who work on Linux and open-source, community inspired and driven software efforts (and in other projects too) and make those available for use - I'd be in a worse place without them and I cannot thank all those people enough...it warms the heart to see people coming together to achieve things in this manner. Thank you. Habs On 20 March 2017 at 02:22, Ian Dunn <du...@gnu.org> wrote: > > I see what you're saying, awakeyet. From a certain perspective, you make > perfect sense. Attempting to bog down the maintainer of a project like GNU > IceCat to try and take it down is something I could see a competitor > doing. I won't argue that there are rotten people that do pull shady, > petty tactics like that to get rid of the competition. > > But there are also good people. People like Daniel, that only wanted to > see support for his OS. He wants to use GNU IceCat, but he got attacked by > people that laughed him out for not using GNU/Linux. There could be 100 > reasons he can't or won't switch, and we should respect that. If we don't > show our users respect, but instead assume that perfectly honest people are > trying to troll or attack us, then we're going to lose people. Not > everyone is out to get someone else, although I know it can feel that way > sometimes. > > Everyone remember: We're all here because we want to see GNU IceCat > succeed. I've been watching the development for years. I've seen two > maintainers try and fail to keep up with Mozilla's development cycle, and > now a third is struggling to keep up. That's why it's up to us to be > supportive, not just of him, but of each other. > > I know it's easy to label awakeyet as a conspiracy theorist and move on > without understanding his perspective, but we should all keep in mind that > he might be right. And awakeyet, you need to be willing to accept that you > might be wrong. I'm not saying anyone's right or wrong here, but this > argument is going to piss people off, and anger will only make it worse. > > GNU IceCat is struggling enough without us all squabbling amongst each > other. Let's end this now before things get any worse, and get back to > supporting the browser we all love. > > -- > Ian Dunn > > -- > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org >
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