Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 27, 2007 04:31 PM
The bottom line is that it's a community project, the community has split, and both parties have a legitimate claim to the name; Nils for being the founder and Hh.org for being the community that developed it.
That community (the majority of the contributing part of it, at any rate) has arguably moved to linuxtogo. Who from the team of active GPE contributors is left at handhelds.org? In the perfect end-game for handhelds.org, they "get the name back" and then what?
It's one thing to say "I disagree with the way this particular project is being developed, so I'm going to fork it so that I can develop it myself", and totally something else to say "the place where we have been hosting our project so far no longer fulfills our needs, so we're going to move our own site". All nastiness and bad behaviour aside, from all information outwardly presented, the latter is what happened.
You stated that Nils is effectively the founder, and has a legitimate claim to control the project - so why can't he do that? Why should he allow someone else to control the name or the project itself? Sending "letters of notice and demand" is hardly within open source norms, either.
Back to the point I was making in the parent post, which is - what is the point? Nobody benefits from what is being attempted here - potential GPE users and contributors will be confused and/or discouraged, valuable development time is being wasted, and the climate of ill feeling is definitely being worsened. Why can't we all just get on with what we are supposed to be doing, which is creating and using free and open source software, instead of playing petty politics?
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Re:Stupid kingdom building!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 27, 2007 04:31 PMIt's one thing to say "I disagree with the way this particular project is being developed, so I'm going to fork it so that I can develop it myself", and totally something else to say "the place where we have been hosting our project so far no longer fulfills our needs, so we're going to move our own site". All nastiness and bad behaviour aside, from all information outwardly presented, the latter is what happened.
You stated that Nils is effectively the founder, and has a legitimate claim to control the project - so why can't he do that? Why should he allow someone else to control the name or the project itself? Sending "letters of notice and demand" is hardly within open source norms, either.
Back to the point I was making in the parent post, which is - what is the point? Nobody benefits from what is being attempted here - potential GPE users and contributors will be confused and/or discouraged, valuable development time is being wasted, and the climate of ill feeling is definitely being worsened. Why can't we all just get on with what we are supposed to be doing, which is creating and using free and open source software, instead of playing petty politics?
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