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On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 05/10/12 06:36, Greg KH wrote: |
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>> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:51:37PM +0200, Fabio Erculiani wrote: |
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>>> Please stop throwing lennartware at people. FailAudio has been enough, thanks. |
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>> The use of these terms is both rude and totally uncalled for. You |
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>> should be ashamed of yourself. |
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> It's reactive. I've been called stupid, conservative, behind the times, |
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> user of obsolete software that will go the way of the dinosaurs. Why |
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> should we be ashamed of not agreeing with these funny pranksters? |
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Look, I have pretty mixed feelings about all the vertical integration. |
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However, let's at least do each other the professional courtesy of |
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not resorting to name-calling. We're allowed to disagree, and that's |
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OK. By all means voice your opinion. However, let's talk about the |
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issues, and not the people advocating them. |
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This is just polite behavior. It is also the rules for posting on |
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this list, especially if you hold a g.o address. |
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> So why would I give up my freedom to tinker just because someone else is |
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> writing more code than I do? |
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I understand your frustration. Really, I do - I often find myself |
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sharing it. However, in the end people working on FOSS are basically |
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free to do what they want, and everybody is free to use or support |
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what they want. I don't like the fact that most people contributing |
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to Android tend/aspire to be associated with the commercial market for |
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smartphones, and as a result they tend to embrace pro-developer / |
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anti-consumer solutions (like not allowing easy blocking of ads, or |
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randomizing calls to read the IMEI, etc). However, the market is what |
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it is. The only thing that is really any different today is that |
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companies are at least releasing the source for the stuff they do - in |
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the past they'd have just closed it all off so that there wouldn't |
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even be the option of forking. If I want to I can at least find the |
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API call to read my IMEI and tamper with it. |
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I think part of the community frustration is the increasing level of |
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commercial support around Linux. That has given us much more robust |
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stuff to play with, but it also has resulted in a loss of control and |
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change in general atmosphere. In the world of 1999 Linux market share |
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took a back seat to hackability. In the world of the Canonicals, |
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market share matters a great deal, and appealing to open source |
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contributors matters a lot less. |
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Rich |
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