Re: The sorry state of open source today

2007-04-20 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 20 April 2007 04:08:05 am Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > --- Tom Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What was it that you said then? I actually cannot remember. > > Page 7: "Except for the *BSD family, whose members are either _*_backed_*_ by > 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations like

Re: The sorry state of open source today

2007-04-20 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
--- Tom Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What was it that you said then? I actually cannot remember. Page 7: "Except for the *BSD family, whose members are either _*_backed_*_ by 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations like The FreeBSD Foundation or the NetBSD Project, or the task of individuals li

Re: The sorry state of open source today

2007-04-20 Thread Tom Rhodes
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:19:25 -0400 (EDT) Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Tom Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > have expected a mix of positive and negative reactions. > > Absolutely. But I have never said a word on the "control" -- what's this > obsession on the con

Re: The sorry state of open source today

2007-04-20 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
--- Tom Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > have expected a mix of positive and negative reactions. Absolutely. But I have never said a word on the "control" -- what's this obsession on the control?! Are you so unhappy about NetBSD being _controlled_ by TNF, that you really, really must to asser

Re: The sorry state of open source today

2007-04-20 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
--- Matt Olander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems more like legitimate debate going on to me ;-) Legitimate, granted. But I was hurt by the way he has put things. Imagine how it is to have a blog with almost 2,900 posts written by me since Aug. 12, 2005. This makes an average of 4.6 posts/d

Re: The sorry state of open source today

2007-04-19 Thread Tom Rhodes
isagree with what you had to say. Not everyone will like it. Not everyone will agree with you. It's true that the negative attention will of course be noticed much quicker and easier than the positive - that's just life. Furthermore, not to further offend you, I read the name of your ar

Re: The sorry state of open source today

2007-04-19 Thread Matt Olander
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: Really, folks, what makes you so aggressive?! I was hurt, and disappointed. I was having higher expectations from the FreeBSD guys. http://beranger.org/index.php?article=2858 R-C Hi R-C, You have definitely blogged an interesting piece! I hardly think that Dag'

The sorry state of open source today

2007-04-19 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
Really, folks, what makes you so aggressive?! I was hurt, and disappointed. I was having higher expectations from the FreeBSD guys. http://beranger.org/index.php?article=2858 R-C Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail

Re: The sorry state of open source today

2007-04-18 Thread José Manuel Molina Pascual
Yes, it's true that I've been posting as I was reading, in fact he seems to have good feelings with the *BSD family. Anyway, the chapter "bugs in the free" is a total nonsense. On 4/18/07, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "José Manuel Molina Pascual" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >

Re: The sorry state of open source today

2007-04-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"José Manuel Molina Pascual" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What can be said about a guy that repeats "Our friends, the software > patents" in several chapters. If you think he favors software patents, you need to read the article again - carefully. He does play the devil's advocate early on, but

Re: The sorry state of open source today

2007-04-18 Thread José Manuel Molina Pascual
Hi, I've never posted to the advocacy list but as I read the post this guy wrote. well, no comment. I've only read the chapter "bugs in the free", it seems to me that this gut is the typical "Security by obscurity", this phrase: "Security fixes are indeed benefiting for having the code in t

Re: The sorry state of open source today

2007-04-18 Thread José Manuel Molina Pascual
What can be said about a guy that repeats "Our friends, the software patents" in several chapters. -- What is history but a fable agreed upon? In politics stupidity is not a handicap ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: The sorry state of open source today

2007-04-18 Thread Scott Long
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: The subject refers to an editorial by Radu-Cristian Fotescu, which was published on the author's own website and in The Jem Report: http://beranger.org/feature/sorryfeature.php http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/309/ The article contains several factual er

Re: The sorry state of open source today

2007-04-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
The subject refers to an editorial by Radu-Cristian Fotescu, which was published on the author's own website and in The Jem Report: http://beranger.org/feature/sorryfeature.php http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/309/ The article contains several factual errors regarding FreeBSD. I ha