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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Daniel Campbell <lists@××××××××.us> wrote: |
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> On 02/20/2014 07:42 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Daniel Campbell <lists@××××××××.us> wrote: |
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>>> On 02/15/2014 08:09 PM, walt wrote: |
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>>>> On 02/15/2014 12:30 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: |
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>>>>> The social |
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>>>>> tactics at work from the systemd team (and verily, other Red Hat |
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>>>>> projects like GNOME) are reminiscent of Microsoft through the use of the |
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>>>>> "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" methodology. |
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>>>> I certainly share your hostility towards M$ for suppressing competition. |
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>>>> Red Hat, like M$, is a for-profit corporation, so I share your suspicion |
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>>>> that they want to suppress their competitors (though I don't know who |
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>>>> their competitors are). |
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>>>> But comparing a completely closed-source shop like M$ to any open source |
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>>>> company leaves me feeling uneasy. I can't find the exact argument to |
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>>>> explain my unease, but I'm hoping someone else will jump in with a more |
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>>>> rational argument. |
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>>> I think I understand where you're coming from. "How can they compare |
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>>> when Red Hat releases their source under a liberating license while MS |
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>>> locks it down behind closed doors?" |
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>>> That's missing the point, though. |
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>> No, it's not. |
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>>> In the FOSS world, that's the "bait", |
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>>> so to speak. The wolf in sheep's clothing. Red Hat can release (or hack |
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>>> on) a bunch of attractive software or features, get people interested |
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>>> (so interested that, say, the majority of distros depend on it *wink |
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>>> wink*), and then use that influence to indirectly control where FOSS |
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>>> moves. By striking the weakest part of the stack (sysv probably *did* |
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>>> need a good replacement, but not one as ambitious as systemd) and |
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>>> digging down into the kernel level (kdbus), Red Hat devs will now have a |
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>>> very influential role in the FOSS world. This will in turn generate |
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>>> interest (and thus profit) in Red Hat. |
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>> First of all, you do realize that Greg Kroah-Hartman, the primary |
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>> author of kdbus, works for the Linux Foundation, right? Not RedHat. |
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>> Second, good for RedHat if they can turn a profit. Meanwhile the code |
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>> from the whole stack is free, and anyone willing and able can fork it |
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>> and use, enhance, or replace any part of it. And yes, I said replace. |
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>> So, again, the comparison makes no sense at all. |
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>>> It's marginally clever, but so clearly obvious at the same time. It's |
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>>> sad (to me) that the community didn't see it coming. |
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>> So you are saying we are idiots? Or just naive? Or both? And *all* of |
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>> us who use systemd and think is a great idea? |
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>> Damn, if only we had knew. Too bad you didn't come before to open our |
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>> eyes to this undeniable truth. Now it's too late, the sky is falling |
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>> and the world will end on fire and brim. |
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>> |
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>>> Those who did have |
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>>> been written off as conspiracy theorists or FUDders. Time will reveal all. |
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>> Indeed it will. Wanna bet a beer? |
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>> Regards. |
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> Indeed, Greg doesn't work for Red Hat. Prior to working for LF, however, |
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> he worked for Novell, another for-profit Linux company. Moot point. |
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> Businesses tend to do favors for other businesses. What makes you think |
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> Red Hat hasn't given LF some money at some point? Further, isn't Lennart |
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> friends with Greg? Isn't that how he got udev into systemd, since Greg |
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> maintained udev before it was merged into systemd? Tell the full story |
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> if you're going to bring it up. |
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So, now it's RedHat, Novell and the Linux Foundation. Anyone else? The |
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NSA? The CIA? The Cobra Commander? |
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The Cobra Commander is always involved. |
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> I will refrain from stooping to the level of petty insults... but yes, |
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> collectively the FOSS community at large has *terrible* social awareness |
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> within its own ecosystem and would not see an agenda coming until it was |
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> too late and they had to fork or rebuild. It has nothing to do with me; |
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> it has everything to do with foresight. And the FOSS world is lacking in |
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> that. Those that have it are outnumbered by those who get distracted by |
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> shiny objects and if they care about the future of FOSS, it's only in a |
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> superficial sense. |
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Gee, if I though that about our community, then I would not want to be |
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part of it. |
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Good think I don't think like you. |
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> FOSS is not just code, it's culture too. |
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Exactly, and it seems you miss the whole point about the FOSS culture too. |
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I will not answer any more of your mails until you present some actual |
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evidence about this big bad group of people under the guidance of |
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shady corporations trying to take advantage of the poor, stupid, |
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social inept FOSS community. |
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I do not care about hearsay. I care about facts, and technological |
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arguments. If you do not have any of those, I'm done with you in this |
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thread. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |