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Re: Cygwin: Open or Closed System? (was: two problems with cygwin's zip)
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- Subject: Re: Cygwin: Open or Closed System? (was: two problems with cygwin's zip)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 13:20:11 -0400
- References: <993648794.12881.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com> <3B39F797.7000608@gruntose.com> <20010627121853.A1016@pinksheets.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:18:53PM -0400, Ken Collins wrote:
>> > Or, if you are going to wait until later in the summer before you
>> > actually look into anything, then that's fine. Let's just stop arguing
>> > about semantics. I will trump you every time. I can do that. I'm
>> > a closed system.
>>
>> semantics is meaning. meaning is important.
>> i personally don't believe that might makes right... in a truly
>> collaborative project, there is no single voice that can shout all the
>> others down. i don't want to say that's what you're doing, although it
>> did feel somewhat that way to me at times. but this could easily be my
>> misconstruing of the real spirit behind the words.
>
>This is the new trend in Open Source "collaborative" projects, in the grand
>style of AOL/Netscape and Apple. They own the copyright, they own the list,
>they own the project, they own the product, and they're not shy about
>reminding you of that. Just because you can contribute source doesn't mean
>you can contribute ideas.
>
>Chris, you're making me regret that I paid for my copy of 7.1 instead of
>dl'ing the ISO.
I apologize again for my poor choice of words.
cgf
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