Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/12/22/19:43:33
Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) wrote:
> This person has background within other projects which isn't great,
> there was some upset and behavior which wasn't really supporting the
> project but really only their own cause.
Not supporting "the project"? *Which* project? Please define the
difference between a project and a cause. I got a cause and I made a
project out of it - my own project. A lot of FOSS projects are born
this way - it's called scratching a personal itch. Where is the
problem? As for the cause being only my own, several other people
besides me have already benefited from my work.
Or are you upset about me occasionally promoting my own libre phone
project on mailing lists associated with other projects that are also
part of the more general phone liberation scene? Well, such plugging
is a necessity, as otherwise there would be absolutely no way for
members of the general community (*general* community, not specific to
one particular project) to learn about the existence of a new project
in the same general domain. If someone got fed up enough with the
current shortcomings of gEDA/PCB to start their own competing project,
I fully expect they would be posting here, and plugging their
alternative every time someone complains about the lack of blind and
buried vias in our current PCB.
Or are you perhaps upset about the unpleasant things I had to do in
order to obtain the necessary starting-point materials for my phone
project, starting-point materials that aren't entirely legal? Well,
sorry, but life is not always pretty. The things I did absolutely had
to be done, there was no other way. And as I already said, others
besides me have already benefited from the result.
M~
P.S. I am intentionally avoiding the sordid details as they are far
too OT for this list.
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