Comments on: Novell’s “Time Would be Better Spent in Doing Something Positive” http://techrights.org/2008/08/31/time-would-be-better-spent/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: HC http://techrights.org/2008/08/31/time-would-be-better-spent/comment-page-2/#comment-21131 HC Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:42:51 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/31/time-would-be-better-spent/#comment-21131 Roy, I follow your articles quite a bit and I agree with you a lot of the time. Keep up the good work. And please do ignore these paty basement dwellers who are most likely beholden to Novell anyways. Oi Dan, if you don't like the articles, why don't you go somewhere for your fill of Novell info instead of trolling here all day. Roy,

I follow your articles quite a bit and I agree with you a lot of the time. Keep up the good work. And please do ignore these paty basement dwellers who are most likely beholden to Novell anyways.

Oi Dan, if you don’t like the articles, why don’t you go somewhere for your fill of Novell info instead of trolling here all day.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2008/08/31/time-would-be-better-spent/comment-page-1/#comment-21129 Roy Schestowitz Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:00:13 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/31/time-would-be-better-spent/#comment-21129 Chris, I've published some Free software and I still actively contribute to some projects. You probably already know that. Chris,

I’ve published some Free software and I still actively contribute to some projects. You probably already know that.

]]> By: aeshna23 http://techrights.org/2008/08/31/time-would-be-better-spent/comment-page-1/#comment-21128 aeshna23 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:32:52 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/31/time-would-be-better-spent/#comment-21128 Contribution to Free Software takes many forms. Ordinary users can proselytize for Free Software and report bugs. Programmers can contribute code. Another form of contribution is to look at the big picture and talk about direction. Some big picture contribution may be like the ongoing discussion about how to involve the user experience in KDE4. Other big picture discussion will discuss the risk Free Software runs. Anyone who has taken an MBA class in business strategy has to admit the possibility that Mono is a patent trap for Linux, since Microsoft's own statements about Silverlight and Moonlight make it clear that Microsoft is thinking about the Intellectual property issues. It seems strange to me that anyone who supports Free Software would desire to squelch this discussion. If Roy is right and Mono is indeed a patent trap, Roy's effort may help prevent hundreds of thousands[*] of programmer man-hours going into a blind alleyway. Such a contribution seems huge to me. [*]This guess was entirely made-up, but seeing how much work goes into gnome, I think it quite likely that tens of thousands would be too small. Contribution to Free Software takes many forms. Ordinary users can proselytize for Free Software and report bugs. Programmers can contribute code. Another form of contribution is to look at the big picture and talk about direction. Some big picture contribution may be like the ongoing discussion about how to involve the user experience in KDE4. Other big picture discussion will discuss the risk Free Software runs. Anyone who has taken an MBA class in business strategy has to admit the possibility that Mono is a patent trap for Linux, since Microsoft’s own statements about Silverlight and Moonlight make it clear that Microsoft is thinking about the Intellectual property issues.

It seems strange to me that anyone who supports Free Software would desire to squelch this discussion. If Roy is right and Mono is indeed a patent trap, Roy’s effort may help prevent hundreds of thousands[*] of programmer man-hours going into a blind alleyway. Such a contribution seems huge to me.

[*]This guess was entirely made-up, but seeing how much work goes into gnome, I think it quite likely that tens of thousands would be too small.

]]> By: Chris http://techrights.org/2008/08/31/time-would-be-better-spent/comment-page-1/#comment-21124 Chris Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:05:54 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/31/time-would-be-better-spent/#comment-21124 Dear Roy, please be so kind to enlighten us why it's AstroTurfing if Novell hires a PR guy / community manager who then does his job but perfectly fine if Ubuntu et al do exactly the same! Also I, probably as well as many others, would be very interested in knowing what your contributions to Free Software are - obviously except this little site. regards Chris Dear Roy,

please be so kind to enlighten us why it’s AstroTurfing if Novell hires a PR guy / community manager who then does his job but perfectly fine if Ubuntu et al do exactly the same!

Also I, probably as well as many others, would be very interested in knowing what your contributions to Free Software are – obviously except this little site.

regards
Chris

]]> By: Dan O'Brian http://techrights.org/2008/08/31/time-would-be-better-spent/comment-page-1/#comment-21115 Dan O'Brian Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:35:52 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/31/time-would-be-better-spent/#comment-21115 You've been whining for 3 years now, it clearly isn't changing anything. Maybe you should try something else, like contributing to Free Software? You’ve been whining for 3 years now, it clearly isn’t changing anything. Maybe you should try something else, like contributing to Free Software?

]]> By: aeshna23 http://techrights.org/2008/08/31/time-would-be-better-spent/comment-page-1/#comment-21112 aeshna23 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:30:36 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/31/time-would-be-better-spent/#comment-21112 "I think there are some folks that are very active online trying to complain about this particular issue, and they’re welcome to that viewpoint. I would suggest that maybe if you are deeply committed to open source, perhaps your time would be better spent in doing something positive. " --Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier There are many ways we can go astray and there is often an urgent need to discuss what these ways may be. The issues raised here about how Linux may go astray are urgent and substantial and should be discussed--not silenced by Zonker's petty accusation that we are merely whining. “I think there are some folks that are very active online trying to complain about this particular issue, and they’re welcome to that viewpoint. I would suggest that maybe if you are deeply committed to open source, perhaps your time would be better spent in doing something positive. ” –Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier

There are many ways we can go astray and there is often an urgent need to discuss what these ways may be. The issues raised here about how Linux may go astray are urgent and substantial and should be discussed–not silenced by Zonker’s petty accusation that we are merely whining.

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