Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3232 mails)

[Rajko M <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

stephan beal wrote:
> This is a bit off topic, so feel free to tap Delete now, but i think 
> everyone who uses and writes Free/Open Source Software should take a 
> look at this:
> 
> http://64.71.152.24/index.html
> 
> i post it here mainly because of the number of "why won't you answer my 
> question!?!?!" posts, and related immature and unappreciative behaviour 
> which so often pops up here on this list. Reading that page, and the 
> "background" page for that page:
> 
> http://64.71.152.24/original.html
> 
> might imbue some appreciation from the non-developers out there who so 
> often DEMAND, without so much as a please or thank you, that FOSS 
> developers solve the users' problems. It will certainly draw some 
> sympathy from fellow FOSS developers who, like Paul, pay for domains 
> and bandwidth out of their own pockets, and offer free support on their 
> own time.
> 
> :)
> 

That is one side of the story that has many (about 43,900) echoes on the
web. Here are some:

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=15620
http://mjg59.livejournal.com/65927.html
http://www.mepis.org/node/10965
http://freshmeat.net/projects/fnk/
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=242077
etc.

This story really has to be on OT list.

His business model wasn't successful and now the problem is GPL, users
and everything else. The public answer wasn't a good move for many
reasons, but with some good business adviser cipherfunk.org can be back
with financially happy him, adviser, bank and Ubuntu/Mepis users.

Companies made fortune with GPL-ed code so GPL isn't that bad. Obviously
asking for donations didn't work very well, or didn't work the way he
asked, but there is a plenty examples that seems to work.

-- 
Regards,
Rajko.