Re: Building a new home for GPE

Marcus Brown schrieb:
[...]
> Now that I've had a quick browse of ltg, I am reminded of a lengthy
> argument on admin@ (etc) regarding Koen. It seems conceivable that the
> idea of moving GPE has been precipitated by that event, and I find it
> disturbing that similarly emotive attitudes have been used in this thread
> to enable what appears to be a hijack of a major project and its sub-
> projects from it current host. These techniques and attitudes do not
> fill me with confidence or exude the freedom you speak of.

What makes you think someone wants to "hijack" anything?

First of all, this is merely impossible since we are talking about an
open source project. It is and will ever be an open source project.

Hijacking means to take something away, or even worse, to blackmail
someone with taking something away.

So, is anyone intending to take something away from anyone? I think not.

Is anyone asking someone for something in order to give the taken away
good back? No.

So please do not use the term "hijack" since it does not at all reflect
the truth.

> Excuse me for my ignorance, I merely wish to understand, not offend.

Me too, I would like to understand the problems that people see but
until now I can only find bad suspicions about LTG paired with some
paranoia and quite an amount of ignorance.

Real arguments by now have been:

- What are the benefits? I think we answered that lengthy enough.

- What is LTG about and what does it mean for GPE? I think we had that too.

- What would be the benefits for GPE? Also already answered in quite
some length.

- Would it work and not fail, in technical sense? Yes it would, since we
tested it already. We would not have proposed this if we would not have
made this sure beforehand.

- Is someone trying to make large profits from it? We heard that an evil
company is sitting on the domain "linuxtogo.org"? We also had that and I
will not repeat the history behind that - just as short as this: It was
a formal necessity, nothing more.

At the moment there are only a few active GPE developers anyway.
If this kind of discussion continues I am tempted to simply "copy"
existing GPE (remember it is GPL/LGPL) and continue from there on. Then
everyone can see and follow what is happening. There will be no hiding,
no behind the scenes discussions or decisions. Everything is and stays open.

> Marcus.
Cheers
  nils faerber

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