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| DATE | 2009-02-01 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Projects
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On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 06:21:25AM -0500, Ronny Abraham wrote:
> OK, I'm willing to play. But my problem is that certain of your
> positions, while reasonable, are incompatible with my own goals.
>
> I feel very strongly about making software available to everyone on
> whatever platform they like. If a developer decides to pop up and
> help me by porting a project I'm working on to, say, the SuperEvilOS,
> then I feel very strongly that he should be able to do so. I fully
> understand your reasoning to the contrary. But like I said, this is
> simply how I feel about it. That doesn't mean that I am going to
> invest the time to port it to every system. But if someone else wants
> to, then they can knock themselves out.
>
Let them knock themselves out. It's Free Software and they can take it
to do whatever they want.
> Now I am willing to accept not hosting source that is meant for a
> non-free OS. After all, your server, your rules.
Ron - I don't own this server. I own a hard drive in it, one of three,
but Michael George gave NYLXS this server and you have an equal share of
it and I administer it, in theory at least, under the supervion of the
NYLXS board.
> But I can't do it
> if someone else can't take that source and host his branch for a
> proprietary OS on another server. I understand how arrogant that
> sounds, I mean I'm only one guy, and who knows if this is a useless
> idea in any case. But that's just how I see things.
>
Preventing the source from being downloaded is a violation of the GPL
so I don't seee why we would not make it publically available.
> By the way, what kind of tools are you referring to?
What tools do you want. We have SSH, C++, Mono, CVS, Apache, PHP,
Perl, Python, EMACS, VIM, personal webspace, C, ADA, Small Talk,
IRC clients, open access for members, mail, about 60Gigs of hard drive
space, mailing lists, Ruby, video hardware, audio hardware, GTK, Wings,
QT widget sets, DOCBOOK, TCL, TK, Java, EMBPERL, MODPERL, a 300 book
library, a 1.1 mb broadband connection, 4 unused monitors, a dozen ISO's
on the server, vidoes, audio resources, 30 gigs of documentaion, just about
anything your heart can delight in.
We can organize and control the invasion of a medium sized country with
NYLXS resources.
Ruben
>
> -ron
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 04:42:48AM -0500, Ronny Abraham wrote:
> >> Ah, OK, thank you for clarifying that.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> >> > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:25:31PM -0500, Ronny Abraham wrote:
> >> >> Uh, I am starting to feel a bit uncomfortable. Are you saying that if
> >> >> I decide to create an free outliner program outside of NYLXS, I can't?
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > How would I have the authority to say that? I'm saying that if NYLXS is
> >> > doing this, then it is by NYLXS standards. If you want to do something
> >> > outside of NYLXS why are we having this conversation. This started with
> >> > Evan's call for more NYLXS projects.
> >> >
> >> > Ruben
> >> >
> >
> > I understand your discomfort ron, but trust me, its not half as bad as
> > the pain of investing 100's of hours into projects to only have them
> > unravel because someone walks away with a significant portion of "our"
> > team effort.
> >
> > Aside from that, we pay almost 200 bucks a month to host this stuff, and
> > we have powerful tools...far more powerful than anything google can
> > offer. We should use them instead of wasting them in a
> > burst of the latest online traps.
> >
> > Ruben
> >
> >> >> -ron
> >> >>
> >
> > --
> > http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Interesting Stuff
> > http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
> >
> > So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
> >
> > http://fairuse.nylxs.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
> >
> > "Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME"
> >
> > "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society."
> >
> > "> I'm an engineer. I choose the best tool for the job, politics be damned.<
> > You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and technology have been attached at the hip since the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt. I guess you missed that one."
> >
> > (c) Copyright for the Digital Millennium
> >
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http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Interesting Stuff
http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
http://fairuse.nylxs.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
"Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME"
"The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society."
"> I'm an engineer. I choose the best tool for the job, politics be damned.<
You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and technology have been attached at the hip since the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt. I guess you missed that one."
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