[X2go-dev] Hello dead project...

[Paul Menzel]

Am Donnerstag, den 23.09.2010, 12:25 -0400 schrieb John A. Sullivan III:
> On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 11:46 -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Jörg Sawatzki wrote:
> > 
> > > As their responsiveness is very slow, they'll either miss the deadline
> > > or they don't want to bother a lawyer again to get the forms correctly
> > > filled out. :)
> > >
> > > The failure of this project is that these guys do not think about the
> > 
> > Jörg:
> > 
> > Let me be direct.  I understand it -- you don't like the 
> > project management choices.  You would do it differently. 
> > You _are_ doing it differently for your customers
> > 
> > Please take content of this type somewhere else, as your 
> > commercial interest makes your 'rants' suspiciously tainted to 
> > me
> > 
> > It is simply inappropriate and rude to eat at a free 
> > restaurant in the honored guest private dining room, and then 
> > loudly complain that the portions were too small, and did not 
> > taste good
> > 
> > Take your complaints outside
>
> Thank you, Russ.  For those who do not know, Russ has more experience
> working on large open source projects than most of us combined.
> Reference http://planet.centos.org/

Although I do not agree with Jörg getting personal I, like others, can
understand the frustration of Jörg and probably his last message with
the legal threats (thread GPL violations) are his desperate effort to
change that.

But Russ misses the point in my opinion. Apart from that commercial
interests are totally valid and a lot of people have already argued that
Jörg’s point of view is legally totally correct, it is not clear for me
why Heinz and Oleksandr do not except any help. They stated several
times, that they are short in time. But they did not accept any help
offer by Jörg for example.

In my opinion it is unfair and misleading to the community, because
people do plan their road map according to those statements. I do not
know the reason. But if Heinz and Oleksandr are afraid that they could
loose control over the project or do not want to share the burden, they
should state it clearly and people can draw their own conclusions from
their on.

I definitely hope that this thread is not going to be any longer until
Heinz is back from vacation. I do thank Heinz and Oleksandr for their
work and support and I do hope that the X2go “community” will settle
this argument and will work together in the future as stated in several
messages to the list.

Heinz and Oleksandr, if you need help with those legal issues I guess
there are a lot of people out here who can give you advise and support
you. Just publish that letter from that other company and go open with
that.


Thanks,

Paul
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