[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Release plans
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: Release plans |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:57:56 -0400 |
Remember that 30 years ago you were a hacker just out to "improve
the system" and any artificial legal hoo-haw that got in the way
just seemed stupid (at first) and then sinister (leading to the
movement).
Ok, so... don't go from that good position, way back then, to a
modern one where for some twisted reason you conclude that you
should decline to "improve the system" when you have every right
to. Feature bans are antithetical to the hacker spirit that gave
rise to the free software movement.
Nobody has banned any feature. The maintainers are simply stating
that such a patch would be rejected and why; just like they would
reject a patch that does not follow coding standards or introduces a
bug.
It would have been no different than rejecting a patch that would add
a login with passwords on ITS or file permissions... People hacking
the system would have felt that it would not improve the system, as is
the case here.
- Re: Release plans, (continued)
- Re: Release plans, Thomas Lord, 2008/08/29
- Re: Release plans, Thomas Lord, 2008/08/29
- Re: Release plans, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2008/08/30
- Re: Release plans, Thomas Lord, 2008/08/30
- Re: Release plans, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2008/08/31
- Re: Release plans, Thomas Lord, 2008/08/29
- Re: Release plans, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2008/08/31
- Re: Release plans, Thomas Lord, 2008/08/29
- Re: Release plans, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/08/29
- Re: Release plans, Thomas Lord, 2008/08/27
- Re: Release plans,
Alfred M. Szmidt <=
- Re: Release plans, Thomas Lord, 2008/08/27
- Re: Release plans, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/08/28
- Re: Release plans, Thomas Lord, 2008/08/29
- Re: Release plans, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/08/27
- Re: Release plans, Thomas Lord, 2008/08/27
- Re: Release plans, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/08/27
- Re: Release plans, Thomas Lord, 2008/08/27
- Re: Release plans, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/08/27
- Re: Release plans, joakim, 2008/08/26
- Re: Release plans, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/08/28