Jörg Schilling is gone

Jörg Schilling is gone

Posted Oct 14, 2021 20:06 UTC (Thu) by malor (guest, #2973)
In reply to: Jörg Schilling is gone by pgeorgi
Parent article: Jörg Schilling is gone

>Once something is available that you consider strictly superior, why go back?

Because the rest of the community you supposedly want to be a part of doesn't agree that it's better, and definitely agrees that it's incompatible with their chosen license? Because adopting that license means that you're forever shut out of every distro, which you then complain about for the rest of your life? He obviously wanted to be a part of the community, or he wouldn't have been complaining, but wasn't willing to take even the tiniest step to actually make that happen, instead resorting to vague legal threats.

>Meaningful to you, who wanted to use Jörg's software in a pre-packaged way. His software wasn't any less available to him, or to anybody who bothered to download a tarballs and compile themselves.

And I'm sure he and his tens of users were very happy. But obviously not happy enough, or he wouldn't have been bitching to all and sundry about his software not being included in distros anymore.

>At that point the rift was unsurmountable, no matter the license.

Only for an entirely ridiculous person that was unable to appreciate the validity of the viewpoints of other people. The SCSI syntax he insisted on wasn't even relevant anymore. It offered no actual benefit, and just made things hard.

SCSI CDROMs were already very rare, even when he was arguing about it, and they certainly don't exist in any meaningful way now. Yet, he still insisted on a labeling model based on SCSI chains. It was ridiculous on its face, and you're being ridiculous to support it now and even pretend that it was any actual barrier to inclusion.

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