Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 06, 2004 12:11 PM
>So the [Mambo] community lashes out at developers, in general. Indeed, however out of context and twisted, that is a different meaning altogether. Okay.
What are you talking about? Here is the complete quote, and for a little context, it had nothing to do with the Connolly dispute, but a disagreement between one of the Mambo developers, and a community member:
<A HREF="http://www.mambers.com/showpost.php?p=47446&postcount=20" title="mambers.com">Post in question.</a mambers.com>
"Unless, of course, they do something that irks the community. There have been many cases where developers seem to have breached the GPL, for instance, and the community have lashed out without forethought.
For the most post Mambo has a very supportive and positive community, sometimes misunderstandings can lead to rifts that lead to possibly talented developers or dedicated users leaving the community.
No community is perfect, this community could definitely use more unity."
That is one opinion of one person, who happend to come into the community at a time when several misunderstandings had cropped up regarding the terms of the GPL, and who had made it a personal goal of his to keep that topic in the forefront of conversation in the community to promote understanding of the terms of the license. He was not commenting on the specifics of the Connolly case, and it has really nothing to do with it.
Connolly has repeatedly lied and written half-truths in this matter. And, he never even claimed to have examined the code in question himself, or had the code examined by a knowledgeable party. He is just guessing that his code is being used, and he is wrong.
And he was wrong to issue press release after press release on the matter.
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Re:In Other Words
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 06, 2004 12:11 PMWhat are you talking about? Here is the complete quote, and for a little context, it had nothing to do with the Connolly dispute, but a disagreement between one of the Mambo developers, and a community member:
<A HREF="http://www.mambers.com/showpost.php?p=47446&postcount=20" title="mambers.com">Post in question.</a mambers.com>
"Unless, of course, they do something that irks the community. There have been many cases where developers seem to have breached the GPL, for instance, and the community have lashed out without forethought.
For the most post Mambo has a very supportive and positive community, sometimes misunderstandings can lead to rifts that lead to possibly talented developers or dedicated users leaving the community.
No community is perfect, this community could definitely use more unity."
That is one opinion of one person, who happend to come into the community at a time when several misunderstandings had cropped up regarding the terms of the GPL, and who had made it a personal goal of his to keep that topic in the forefront of conversation in the community to promote understanding of the terms of the license. He was not commenting on the specifics of the Connolly case, and it has really nothing to do with it.
Connolly has repeatedly lied and written half-truths in this matter. And, he never even claimed to have examined the code in question himself, or had the code examined by a knowledgeable party. He is just guessing that his code is being used, and he is wrong.
And he was wrong to issue press release after press release on the matter.
End of story.
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