John Sonnenschein wrote:
> On 5/31/07, Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote:
>>
>> > On 5/31/07, Brian D. Horn <Brian.Horn at sun.com> wrote:
>> >> Tom swears that he will get a new code drop with LOTS of
>> >> new goodies out soon. I'll pester him to make sure it happens.
>> >
>> > Yeah, tom has been promising us code "Real Soon Now" for a long time,
>> > and all it's done is stalled community development, so I'm not buying
>> > it & I'm quite frankly tired of hearing about it.
>> >
>> > If the code isn't open, it doesn't exist. Promises to the contrary are
>> > more than unproductive, they're hostile to the project.
>>
>> John, chill out just a tad here.
>>
>> If you want to blame someone then fire some blame at me. I saw
>> that the
>> polaris.blastwave.org server was out of control and I shut it down. It
>> would have been at about the same time as a big server room move and
>> once
>> the new server room was in place and the rack rolled in I simply never
>> brought it back up. Seen blastware lately? It is gone too as are a
>> stack of the extensions to genunix.net etc etc. I simply watched them
>> pass into nothingness. I'll go and register them again and maybe even
>> recover blastware also. Who knows .. we may create a pure community
>> based
>> distro yet.
>>
>
> It's not about blame.
>
> it's preposterous that even after I rant about how promises that don't
> have included source code are damaging to the project, we're given yet
> another empty promise!
>
> I don't care to hear "any time now"... I stand by my previous
> statement that if we can't see the code, it doesn't exist, and saying
> that it does exist is just hurting us as a project. Whether this harm
> is intentional or not is irrelevant to the fact that we're best served
> by either development being open, or it not existing at all
I see.... I make a commitment that I will make something happen in the
near future and since it didn't happen in the four minutes between my
posting
and yours it was an empty promise.... hmmmmm.....
