I was just wondering about what people thought about having MS code in the repos. I remember Skype used to be in multilib, and that wasn't even open source. I didn't expect this much of a reaction. Sorry if this isn't the place to discuss things like that.
On August 19, 2016 11:17:34 AM EDT, "ITwrx.org" <i...@itwrx.org> wrote: >On 08/18/2016 08:49 PM, arch-general-requ...@archlinux.org wrote: >> Send arch-general mailing list submissions to >> arch-general@archlinux.org >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-general >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> arch-general-requ...@archlinux.org >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> arch-general-ow...@archlinux.org >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of arch-general digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Opinions on PowerShell? (Hunter Connelly) >> 2. Re: Opinions on PowerShell? (Kyle Terrien) >> 3. Re: Opinions on PowerShell? (Eli Schwartz) >> 4. Re: Opinions on PowerShell? (Kyle Terrien) >> 5. Re: Opinions on PowerShell? (Hunter Connelly) >> 6. Re: Opinions on PowerShell? (Eli Schwartz) >> 7. Re: Opinions on PowerShell? (Eli Schwartz) >> >> >> >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:30:27 -0400 >> From: Hunter Connelly <blueblur112...@gmail.com> >> To: arch-general@archlinux.org >> Subject: [arch-general] Opinions on PowerShell? >> Message-ID: <20160818233015.ga27...@hunters-laptop.fios-router.home> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> Recently, Microsoft released the source code for PowerShell under the >MIT license. >> Here's the link for that. >> >> https://github.com/powershell/powershell >> >> I was wondering what you guys thought about it. >> Specifically, if any of you will be using it, if you think it should >be in the main repos, what this might mean for the future, etc. >> >Nothing personal to the OP(maybe this wasn't intentional flamebait), >but >I, myself, don't want to hear "news"/propaganda about MS open source >trapware in an Arch Linux mailing list or anywhere else for that >matter. >I see it's been uploaded it to aur. great. I won't be using it or >voting >for it's inclusion in official repos. I'll refrain from responding to >"what this might mean for the future".
