On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:17:58 -0500 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:32:45 -0500 Chris Gianelloni | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | Actually, that's one of the joys of open source. There *doesn't* | > | need to be *any* justification *whatsoever* for Roy to do | > | anything he likes. After all, that's how many projects start | > | out. Someone decides they want to do something and they start | > | working on it. | > | > Does that extend to someone causing huge tree breakage and massive | > amounts of work for other people because they want to support a | > minority proprietary platform that ships with all kinds of cripped | > and non-GNU core tools? | > | | Yes. And now you're just spreading FUD because Roy clearly said none | of that would happen, so it's pointless to even try to go that route | with your FUD.
Which is irrelevant to the discussion about what is acceptable when "scratching an itch". And what you are dismissing as "FUD" is in fact what stopped a change that would royally piss off an awful lot of users. But hey, I understand you like to go around bashing people. Does doing so scratch an itch of yours or something? -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/
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