Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 28 Jun 2008, at 02:41, Daniel Iliev wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:20:50 +0200
> Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
>
>> Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The question is valid and interesting, moreover it is asked very
>>> kindly. I can't see what possibly might be preventing you to answer
>>> the same way.
>>
>> I did answer these questions many times before and in many cases I
>> have later been attacked.

Joerg, then perhaps it would be easy for you to provide a link to  
those answers? If I were answering the same question many times, then  
I'd probably set up an FAQ page on my website.

>> The URLs mentioned did point to disinformation from lwn.net that
>> should be easily identifyable as incorrect claims. If such URLs are
>> published without comment, I asume that the questionair believes the
>> incorrect claims from lwn.net. Would you answer people if they make
>> untrue claims (e.g. by giving uncommented pointers to other peoples
>> incorrect articles) before asking?
>>
>
> No, this is your assumption. Mine is the opposite - as I see it, the
> question is very real and the author admitted that he found those URLs
> using Google which implies he had nothing to do them.

Yes, exactly. I Googled to try & find out Joerg's side of the story &  
it simply wasn't immediately obvious (why he chose to change to the  
CDDL).

There was no malice in my question - from the sounds of it, Joerg's  
software is better than the fork. If it doesn't affect me then I  
won't bother one way or the other, but if one license is clearly  
better than the other (or if Joerg is genuinely the victim of  
malicious or jealous wossisname) then I'll be really militant about  
switching all my machines. I use Free software because my right to  
continue using it is protected.

> I mean no offense, but allow me to be blunt. This practice of yours
> is not only extremely annoying, but it is also very unwise because it
> backfires - instead of making people understand your problem, now you
> have a list of annoyed Gentoo fans.

Exactly. For periods I don't follow the list at all, but I have  
encountered Joerg's posts before and this latest thread just started  
to piss me off. Honestly, Joerg, the tone of your messages just makes  
me feel you're irrational.

If I felt he was righteous & justified in his indignation then I'd  
climb on his team. Until this morning's exchange of posts I just felt  
he was avoiding my question because he couldn't fairly argue his  
position.

> You want to use the CDDL. On the other hand you can't release the  
> whole
> project under CDDL, because there are parts written by other people  
> who
> had released their work under GPL before you took the project. So, you
> dual-licensed the package, releasing the parts you have written by
> yourself as CDDL and the others w/o changing the license.

That's fair enough.

Why do you prefer the CDDL to the GPL, Joerg?

Stroller.

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