Merging bcachefs

Posted Jun 20, 2023 14:17 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Merging bcachefs by khim
Parent article: Merging bcachefs

> Sorry, but that's failure in my book.

That's fine, do you have any evidence that it is failure in the book of Samba developers? Because that's the only part that matters to this discussion.

Merging bcachefs

Posted Jun 20, 2023 18:38 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

> That's fine, do you have any evidence that it is failure in the book of Samba developers?

There's a presentation from one of the Samba developers about how GPLv3 failed to bring better compliance and is not helping at all.

Merging bcachefs

Posted Jun 20, 2023 20:50 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

> Because that's the only part that matters to this discussion.

Wow. Just… wow. have you already forgotten that it was you who joined discussion about Sun engineers and promised some mythical solution to their worries.

And now you turn around and say that what they think is irrelevant and only ones who support FSFs jihad matter?

I'm starting to understand why people may dislike GPL. Once upon time FSF did a lot help people dealing with their practical issues: GNU software for Solaris and, later, Linux, then CygWin and many such things helped to solve many practical problems.

But with friends like these… who proclaim opinions of other people just don't matter if they refuse to join their holy jihad… who needs enemies?

And not everyone is wise enough, like Linus, and can separate GPLv2 (really superb hack on top of copyright system) from people who invented that hack (and then eventually ruined GPL with introduction of GPLv3) and who are, today, more of bane then an asset.