On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 09:06:21PM +0200, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > On 2007-11-16 12:25 -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > You knew that when you distributed the original under its original > > license. If you didn't that is your fault. Don't blame me for using > > free software under a relatively well understood license. > > No, I just didn't think back then about the license so much; I did > not realise what kind of dickheads and fuckwits the FOSS herd is > composed of. Call me naive if you want. But as the project started
You are naive. The open source community is harsh and does not tend to cater to someone's feelings. Kind of like the real world. > to gain popularity, you get a lot of people complaining and asking > help for ancient versions distributed by the distributions that also > have in the meanwhile become more powerful, and gained more central > control over conveniently installable software. And at the same time > FOSS detoriorates by forcing the anti-aliasing fascist fontconfig/Xft > nearly everywhere, and now the herd modifies the version of Ion their > distros carry to use that crap, which I will have nothing to do with > until my demands [1] are met. I fail to see how that is your problem. Its free software, they change it they deal with it. The only choice you have to make is how much fun to poke at those people. Why do you care if someone else is starring at blurry fonts? Why do you care if someone else is watching those fonts scroll by at a snails pace slowing down their overall machine? Really, why do you care about someone's stupidity? > > When I first started out on Ion, I had hope in FOSS. All that has > been lost now. Most people are dickheads and fuckwits everywhere, > no matter their proclaimed ideals of so-called "freedom". FOSS > licenses are only for naive people and those who go with the > herd. As should be apparent, I don't. You should take up some drama classes and put that anger to use. Dealing with Linux people tends to anger people. Maybe you should try to leave the linuxers behind and work in a more constructive community. I for one truly appreciate ion and its intentions. Knowing other folks that use ion, they agree and do the same. Your bitterness stems from getting involved with people you are incompatible with. I'll be the first to admit that getting involved in the Linux community is frustrating and boring. I therefore quit the community and found one that I am compatible with. And if you are that pissed off, why don't you just quit? You don't owe anyone anything. > > > [1]: http://iki.fi/tuomov/ion/faq/entries/Blurred_fonts.html > > -- > Tuomo >
