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Jan 31, 2007 5:09 PM
by: swalker
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Re: Re: [Fwd: Re: GPLv3?]
Posted:
Jan 31, 2007 4:24 PM
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On 1/31/07, Ian Collins <ian at ianshome dot com> wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
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> >>I don't care what license is used, I care only about
> >>acceptance, and that
> >>means for the most amount of open source software
> >>that we can be accepted by.
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> >>Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group
> >>Advocate of insourcing at Sun - hire people that care
> >>about our company!
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> >It is rather unsettling to me that someone would care more about acceptance than success. The two are not necessarily synonymous. If the OpenSolaris community only wants acceptance, then it will always live an unhappy life much like real people who seek the same thing do...
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> Can you show us where Alan said he cares more about acceptance than
> success?
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> Just because two concepts aren't necessarily synonymous doesn't make
> them mutually exclusive.
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> Ian
Alan said he *only* cared about acceptance, not the license. Whether
this means not anything else as well is not clear. I'm just saying
that I find that particular terminology in any context unsettling.
Acceptance should almost never be more important to me personally.
--
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
binarycrusader at gmail dot com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
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Re: Re: [Fwd: Re: GPLv3?]
Posted:
Jan 31, 2007 4:42 PM
in response to: Guest
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Shawn Walker wrote:
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> Alan said he *only* cared about acceptance, not the license. Whether
> this means not anything else as well is not clear. I'm just saying
> that I find that particular terminology in any context unsettling.
> Acceptance should almost never be more important to me personally.
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Acceptance *of the license* and quite frankly, I agree with him. In the
context of a license, success is impossible without acceptance.
Ian
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Re: Re: [Fwd: Re: GPLv3?]
Posted:
Jan 31, 2007 4:57 PM
in response to: ian
To: OpenSolaris » discuss
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> Shawn Walker wrote:
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> >
> > Alan said he *only* cared about acceptance, not the
> license. Whether
> > this means not anything else as well is not clear.
> I'm just saying
> > that I find that particular terminology in any
> context unsettling.
> > Acceptance should almost never be more important to
> me personally.
> >
> Acceptance *of the license* and quite frankly, I
> agree with him. In the
> context of a license, success is impossible without
> acceptance.
>
> Ian
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Ah, but accepted by *whom*? It's obviously already accepted. The question is by how many and are those people important?
Sorry, but at this point, there is absolutely no proof that a chance in license will bring this mysterious success you propose that it will.
Look at GNU Hurd. I don't see people flocking to it just because it's GPL...
-Shawn
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