What's a gang-press?
What's a gang-press?
Posted Sep 27, 2006 18:43 UTC (Wed) by robilad (guest, #27163)In reply to: Hiding behind weasel words? by smoogen
Parent article: Why Torvalds is sitting out the GPLv3 process (Linux.com)
I haven't heard that term before.
What makes you feel your dissent is being drowned out? Afaict, you've tried to label people you disagreed with as evil, so you got replies disagreeing with that.
Do you consider labelling people who disagree with you as dissent? I'm curious.
I enjoyed reading Ted Tso's mail today on LKML that goes into the linkage issues between the kernel and the glibc, for example, and came back with the idea that his dissent is based on technical issues. I also read Linus' 'fed up with the FSF' piece, and came back with the idea that his dissent is based on personal issues between him and the FSF, and philosophical considerations on what should be in the GPL.
I think that as long as he and his supporters, as well the other side, can keep their own personal issues out of it, they can manage to get to a workable compromise with each other. You'll have to find some mutual respect, though, or you all won't get that.
I don't think that's very likely for the next few weeks, though, as it's in both leaders' and their followers' nature to try to prove to the other guys that they are more clever first. So I expect to see this fun 'public debate on GPLv3' to continue for a while, while the real fixing will be done behind the scenes between OSDL, FSF and similar entities, anyway, in the usual 'undemocratic', 'intrasparent' way such things are done.
I'd guess that after the fixes are in, the undemocratic process will be just fine. :)