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On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:41:51 +0100 |
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Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> On Montag 24 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 25 November 2008 00:15:55 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > > On Montag 24 November 2008, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: |
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> > > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:41:14PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: |
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> > > > > > btrfs looks very promising. I hope it will become a good |
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> > > > > > fs. Fast for everybody, stable, efficient. We will see. |
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> > > > > > Until then I will stay with r4+compression. |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > Well, it is under a restrictive license, so there is no |
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> > > > > chance that this filestem will become popular on many OS |
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> > > > > platforms. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > btrfs is under GPL... |
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> > > |
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> > > you can stop right here. Jörg thinks that the GPL is restrictive |
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> > > and the CPPL much more 'freedomy'. Don't try to argue. It will |
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> > > result in some flamefest. |
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> > |
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> > I dunno about that. About the flamefest I mean. For the past 6 |
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> > months Joerg has been a decent helpful member around here. He |
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> > answers up every time his code is involved, doesn't rise to the |
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> > bait with the occasional dumb user question and is mostly your |
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> > typical geek with straight answers - with a bit of slack cut |
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> > because he's not native English speaking. |
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> > |
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> > It wasn't always like that, but I think we should acknowledge |
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> > things that change for the better. |
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> I am not saying that it is Jörg's fault. Just saying that arguing |
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> will end in a flame fest. I have seen him writing about the GPL and |
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> his more favorite licences before - nothing Nicolas or anybody else |
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> says will change his mind. And nothing he will say will change the |
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> mind of the GPL fans. So there will be some clash of egos and a big, |
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> fat flame war, each side convinced to speak the ultimate truth. No |
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> thanks. |
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Also, no one reading it would learn anything more than they could have |
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by googling a little while. All the arguments about whether copyleft is |
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more or less freedomish than non-copyleft are already out there for |
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anyone who wants to read them. |
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-- |
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»Q« |
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Kleeneness is next to Gödelness. |
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