Re: Why are you guys using user space utilities not written by us that seem to not work? Could you change who is the debian maintainer for us?

2005-03-01 Thread Hans Reiser
Bill Allombert wrote: Hello Hans, you are concerned with people forking reiserfs and make Namesys looks bad, so I will assume you are also concerned by people forking Debian and make it looks bad. Touche. Linspire does some cool stuff, and is strong in the areas where Debian most needs help (s

Re: Why are you guys using user space utilities not written by us that seem to not work? Could you change who is the debian maintainer for us?

2005-03-01 Thread Hans Reiser
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Re: Why are you guys using user space utilities not written by us that seem to not work? Could you change who is the debian maintainer for us?

2005-03-01 Thread Hans Reiser
Steve Langasek wrote: Hans, On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 03:22:17PM -0800, Hans Reiser wrote: This is the second time that Ed has broken Reiserfs support in Debian, and each time it breaks Namesys looks bad, because users have no idea it is not us who broke our code. Thanks to Cliff we now have

Why are you guys using user space utilities not written by us that seem to not work? Could you change who is the debian maintainer for us?

2005-02-28 Thread Hans Reiser
lename: pool/p/progsreiserfs/progsreiserfs_0.3.0.4-4_i386.deb Hans Reiser wrote: Clifford Beshers wrote: We recently rewrote our installer to use a custom program that can stream a compressed iso9660 image file and unpack it to disk. Previously it used rsync. Everything seemed to be fine,

Re: Debian "Sarge" Support

2005-02-28 Thread Hans Reiser
Can you folks at Debian tell me whether we are supported in Sarge? Thanks, Hans Ben Pont wrote: I am preparing to install Debian "Sarge" on my computer and am debating whether to partition Reiser4 or Ext3. I know Lindows supports Reiser4, Lindows being Debian based, but do you know if Sarge explici

Re: new credit printing mechanism now present in reiserfsprogs

2003-07-23 Thread Hans Reiser
Yury Umanets wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 12:15, David B Harris wrote: (That's a really long recipient list - does this need only go to reiserfs-list@namesys.com and [EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:45:09 +0400 Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: it now prints

new credit printing mechanism now present in reiserfsprogs

2003-07-23 Thread Hans Reiser
it now prints two random credits rather than all of them, and credits for the developers are in place. suggestions about how to improve this while preserving the credits (e.g. printing them at a different stage of mkreiserfs, etc.) are welcome. -- Hans

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-24 Thread Hans Reiser
Oleg Drokin wrote: Hello! On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:25:11PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: If someone wants to create a boot program and/or screensaver that picks a random OS component to describe the authors of at boot time, that would be nicest of all. BTW, I just thought about it again

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-23 Thread Hans Reiser
Andrew Saunders wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:46:24 +0400 Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One could argue that if the "thief" had been unable to re-brand the code, they never would have used it. If they had to have a prominent notice advertising "We did not write

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-23 Thread Hans Reiser
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 11:00, Hans Reiser wrote: Anthony DeRobertis wrote: [...] could apparently make its changes to the documentation of a GFDL-licensed document near-proprietary by adding invariant sections and cover texts that are unconscionable to the original

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-23 Thread Hans Reiser
Ed has graciously agreed to restore the credits, and I thank Debian for its respect for the wishes of the original author in regards to prominently crediting those who have contributed. -- Hans

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-23 Thread Hans Reiser
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Consider that an Evil Company, say, starting with the letter 'M', could apparently make its changes to the documentation of a GFDL-licensed document near-proprietary by adding invariant sections and cover texts that are unconscionable to the original author. Something like

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-21 Thread Hans Reiser
Jarno Elonen wrote: the frontend's "About" box? "About" buttons are an abomination, like the term open source, they gutlessly pretend to be what they are not in an attempt to please by dissembling.;-) First time users go to them expecting to find out what the program does, and instead they g

If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-21 Thread Hans Reiser
I find it unspeakably ingrateful to Stallman that some of you begrudge him his right to express his (discomforting to some) views to all who use his software, and to ensure that they are not removed by those suits who are discomforted. As far as I am concerned, I have no desire to have ReiserFS

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-21 Thread Hans Reiser
Glenn McGrath wrote: What if the full statment was shown once on installation, but not every time the program is used, would that be an acceptable compromise to you ? Glenn Maybe, but not very many people run mkreiserfs frequently. For most users, mkreiserfs is performed once on installation,

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-20 Thread Hans Reiser
It is really a question of, do you respect the authors? Stallman never imagined that anyone in the free software business would be other than a gentleman. Then the OS rather than just the kernel got named Linux by those who found his politics inconvenient to their business, and the k got drop

plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-19 Thread Hans Reiser
Please explain your reasons for removing the credits and attributions from the reiserfs utilities in violation of our copyright. You'll note that ReiserFS anticipated the GNU GPL V3 by including clauses that forbid removal of credits in its license, and for a long time I have been telling Stall