On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Sean Farley wrote:
Just relax and take deep breaths. :) As should we all.
It's difficult, because I see, once again, how the discussion deviates to mostly irrelevant topics. Quite frankly, I am very dissapointed with the current debate:
-- I provide arguments which details the feedback mechanism generated by each license. What do I get back: "nobody stops companies from contributing back under BSD" or "it is possible that companies will still contribute back under BSD", and crap like that. If people don't udnerstand that a system survives not on political will but on feedback loops built-in the system, they don't understand how the world works, and we're just wasting time.
-- instead of focusing the discussion on what's important for Wine, we get incredible FUD as "people will be afraid to link against the LGPL".
-- we get arguments of the form: "it is possible that..." But of course is "possible", for crying out loud!!! Everything is possible, but we should be concerned with what's _probable_!
I'll stop here, because I'm too upset to continue, to be honest...
-- Dimi.