Re: [ros-dev] ***SPAM*** Goodbye Everyone...

[Brandon Turner]

KJKHyperion wrote:

>   Steven Edwards wrote:
>
> > >   Anyways,
> > > I believe it is time to start anew.  New project, different 
> > >  name, different goals.
> > >     
> >  We seem to be a ship that is taking on water. The only consolation I 
> >  can give you is that the old tree will be restored somewhere as per 
> >  the vote. From there auditing should take place.
> >  
>  Voting is stupid. Auditing is stupid. Policies are stupid. Why is 
>  ReactOS dying? because coders cannot code anymore. Here's your crisis. 
>  All this trumpeting about the audit is stupid, and I seriously want to 
>  kick in the face whoever actually believes in it. It's only a 
>  convenient lie you all like to believe in
>
>  For the love of god, unlock the repository and resume the coding. 
>  Nobody wants the audit, and as it stands now it's completely useless - 
>  if there's dubious code, let someone _else_ do the audit. In the USA 
>  you have the DMCA, ok, but you have presumption of innocence too, so, 
>  christ almighty, use it. Let _Microsoft_ waste resources trying to 
>  demonstrate a copyright violation. Let them prove the reversing wasn't 
>  clean-room, if that's even possible (let _them_ find out if it is). 
>  You are digging your own graves, you don't even know who the "enemy" 
>  is and have never faced it. This is suicide. Legally we were and we 
>  are in no danger, you KNOW it's always been a matter of PR, but 
>  someone HAD to fuck it up royally (hey Hartmut, please eat shit and 
>  die. This is all your own fucking fault. Hope you're happy with the 
>  outcome of your sissy drama) and turn us into instant celebrities. 
>  Relax, chill, you cannot outdo Wine, PR-wise, they have investors, we 
>  don't - so why act like we did do, with all the issues and none of the 
>  benefits?
>
>  We don't need good PR, we need fucking CODE. Wasn't becoming a ReactOS 
>  developer a matter of trust and social networking? This used to be the 
>  beauty of it, that you didn't have to sign away your soul to 
>  partecipate. And I don't see what makes you believe that adding 
>  barriers will be beneficial - has it ever worked? EVER?
>
>  This is an open source project. Code is all that matters. No code 
>  flowing in, project dies
>
>  *****
>
>  Mr. Project Coordinator, take some risks, show some balls, be a 
>  fucking asshole about it if you have to, and recall the audit. It's 
>  only been a glorious display of weakness and ineptitude so far. You 
>  know it's killing the project while doing NO GOOD WHATSOEVER to it, 
>  save for HYPOTHETICAL, FUTURE and all-in-all IRRELEVANT benefits
>
>  Wine can ultimately suck dick, if that's what you're worried about. 
>  They're using a public license, they cannot revoke it. So if they 
>  don't like our policies, so long. We can parasite them, they cannot 
>  parasite us, all their loss if they want to turn it into a one-way 
>  relationship because mr. Investor has his ass itching about bad PR 
>  from us and Alexandre has to scratch him
>
>  Please let the code flow again. Let people do what they want to do
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Brandon