Absolutely great! You are so keen and brave - I wouldn't dare to
and some others obviously neither!
We need people who calm things down to make negotiations and an
agreement possible, that's absolutely true, but we also need
people to emphasize the frontiers to make a correct agreement
possible in the first place.
If it is not possible to distinguish between right or wrong, how
will you hope to reach a basis that will last? It is not a
question of politics, but of ethics and morals. I know that
these are not counted upon in business, but ultimately this is
what drives the world.
And nobody will ever change the basic principles. You may have
short term success violating those principles, but they will not
last. Yesterday, I read an interesting German article about Bill
Gates. A nice parallel was drawn to Napoleon and the like. All
of these had huge success on the short run, but failed very soon.
When I started in my computer business, Nixdorf was
overwhelmingly successful. Five years later, they didn't exist
anymore. They, like all big players at the time, held their
customers hostage. Nobody liked that, so as soon as they had a
chance they took their choice. The same will happen with
Microsoft and any other endeavor which tries to force people into
something which they don't really want.
On the other hand, the open source movement is driven by huge
energies which cannot be bought by money, no matter how much you
want to throw at it.
As they are negotiating right now, as far as I remember, this
beautiful analysis may come a little late. On the other hand,
they plan to take breaks and communicate, so I hope both parties
will get to know your arguments.
>>You are, of course, welcome to your opinion, and to the expression of said
>>opinion. You are also liable to be judged on the basis of that expression, and
>> frankly, your expression leaves me wondering about your wisdom and your
>>analytical capabilities, not to mention your social skills.
> What - you work for NuShpere. My analysis of this affair is correct.
> It comes down to trust....
> I TRUST MONTY.
> I do not trust Brit, and man who has abused the GPL, abused the MYSQL
> trademark, and broke the trust between the two partners.
> What do I base that trust on....
> 6 years of contant communication and dependency of the MYSQL
> staff and my PERSONAL relationship with Monty and his Fella's
> as he called them.
> Furthmore, the assumption that under any condition NuSphere BROUGHT the right
> to open up shop directly under the MYSQL name and conduct independent sales,
> promotion and business, is damn off the wall, far fetched, and ridicules to
> asume, that you'd have to be a complete utter moron to beleive this report,
> and in addition, the report should be playing tomorrow afternoon on the
> Opra show, and be reported right next to the alien abduction story in the
> National Enquirer.
> Furthermore, their behavior secondary to this, and the proposition that they
> opened the mysql.org site as a "Community" site flies right in the face
> of the proposition forwarded by NuShpere that they opened the site with full
> rights to do so under previous agreements because they purchased control
> over the MYSQL trademark because they did in secret, then protested they had
> they right ot, after saying it was a communitee site, and then finally, they
> release they're Gemini code on it, only after 100's of people complained that
> they were violating the GPL.
> This is NOT the actions of an honest person...period...
> No
> We need NuSphere to admit their wrongs, make a blanket apology, and
> everyone can call a no harm no foul, and forget it happened.
> Ruben
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