On 1 April 2013 10:27, Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho <[email protected]> wrote: > Me parece pegadinha de 1 de abril. Olha o link.
Hah - cai direitinho. tava até elaborando uns comentarios aqui na minha cabeça já, pra nao deixar a bola cair - algo na linha "a vida é assim, mas quando alguns se cansam outros tem que continuar no caminho', etc... :-p js -><- > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Raniere Silva <[email protected]> wrote: >> Olá, >> >> parece que um dos desenvolvedores do GNU Octave está abandonando o barco. >> >> Eu achei que o terceiro parágrafo do email dele seria um bom começo para o >> LibreBar dessa semana (o email completo segue abaixo). >> >> Raniere >> >> ----- Forwarded message from "John W. Eaton" <[email protected]> ----- >> >> Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 03:00:14 -0400 >> From: "John W. Eaton" <[email protected]> >> To: octave maintainers mailing list <[email protected]>, octave help >> mailing list <[email protected]> >> Subject: I'm no longer working on Octave >> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.2.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) >> >> I've made my last change to Octave. Unfortunately, it's not the great >> change I was hoping it would be -- you know, the kind of change that >> would get me inducted into the Hacker Hall of Fame. Instead, it's >> just a stupid little change, and I did it in kind of a crummy way. I >> reversed the terminal colors in the new GUI so that the text is black >> and the background is white on Windows systems. I know, fantastic new >> feature, right? >> >> I hate to leave things like that, but after pouring my heart and soul >> into the project for more than 21 years, I've had all I can take. As >> I was checking in that last change it really struck me how pointless >> it all is. I mean, who really cares what the terminal window colors >> are? And why am I wasting what precious little time I have here on >> Earth changing them around? It all really began to feel unimaginably >> silly. And then I suddenly came to the complete and utter realization >> that I truly have no more patience for another bug report about how >> "sin(pi) is not exactly zero", or some other armchair quarterback over >> in the peanut gallery calling me and other hard working Octave >> developers names like "kindergartners" because we sometimes make >> mistakes. All I can say is, "is anyone perfect?" >> >> As far as I can tell, all anyone really wants from the Octave project >> is an exact clone of Matlab with a price tag of zero. We've tried for >> more than 20 years to explain the importance of software freedom, but >> no matter what we do or say, people are still squarely focused on >> Octave's missing features and the relative pricing structures. It's >> crystal clear to me now that freedom doesn't matter one iota, and a >> price of $0 is not low enough if there is even ONE bug or missing >> feature. So I say screw it, this whole software freedom thing is just >> an aging hippy fantasy anyway. I honestly do not know what those >> people are smoking. >> >> For those of you who will, no doubt, continue to work on Octave >> anyway, there's probably nothing I can do to dissuade you from your >> folly. So I suppose I might as well wish you the best of luck. But I >> beg of you, please don't contact me asking for help. I really want to >> put this 20+ year long nightmare behind me as quickly as possible. To >> that end, I've written up some quick notes about what I'm thinking of >> doing next. If you are at all interested, you can read them here: >> >> http://jweaton.org/future-plans--is-there-any-other-kind.html >
