Em Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:46:54 -0300 Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
> > Eu acho q ele entende a questão (o Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols não é > > exatamente um mané no mundo FLOSS), mas o pto de vista dele é mais > > de "produto", com um viés "open source", do q propriamente de > > alguém preocupado com a questão filosófica por trás do SL. > > Eu não conheço ele pelo nome; ele pode não ser um mané, mas o artigo > dele é completamente misguiding e desinformado. Comentário da LWN da semana sobre o artigo: "Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is a mainstream technology reporter who has often shown a reasonably high level of clue regarding the free software community. A recent article, titled Open Source Madness!, shows where that clue ends, however. More to the point, it shows an area where the free software community is having a hard time making itself understood. The article in question takes issue with the Debian project's plan to drop Firefox from etch (see this LWN article from September for more information), and with the existence of Gnuzilla and Iceweasel, which are versions of the Mozilla suite and Firefox browser which are intended to be truly freely redistributable. Mr. Vaughan-Nichols presents the issue as being only about logos, calls the Debian developers "fundamentalists," and states: By winning this 'battle,' the pedantic Debian developers have helped the proprietary forces of Microsoft and friends far more then the cause of Open Source. So why is it that the Debian developers have done this terrible thing? Maybe it is time to look at the reasoning behind this move. [...]" http://lwn.net/Articles/203084/ (ainda somente para assinantes; quem não for veja sumana que vem) Abraço, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org/ | http://kov.eti.br/
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