Disturbingly that applies as much to Monsanto as it does to Ubuntu or FOSS. On 30 Apr 2014 07:15, "James Cuzella" <trinitr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Complaints show fear, anger & ungratefulness while calm feature requests > show peace, gratefulness & understanding of a problem. > > Community giving of FOSS shows kindness & compassion, while taking & > complaining shows an unsatisfied desire for control. > > True control lies in harmonising with the community, and paradoxically > involves letting go of your need for control while also giving the part > which is under your control. > > Heartbleed shows inherent insecurity of a house divided against itself.... > yet it also shows the speed of the Whole to heal itself. > > Privacy is an illusion... security built on deterministic Laws has little > room for true randomness without hiding within Complexity. The appearance > of randomness is Chaos, yet within the chaos lies a higher Order. > > No matter which side you think you are on... you're actually on both, and > they are not truly opposed when undivided. > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Sam Liddicott <s...@liddicott.com> > wrote: > > > I'm feed up of people complaining about people complaining about wilful > bad > > security. > > > > This is doubly so considering all the criticism that has gone the way of > > the OpenSSL people in the wake of Heartbleed. > > > > A little more discussion there might have helped, but here it obviously > > hasn't! > > > > When someone gives their time and experience to improve software designs > > from fatal flaws, often in the evenings with other distractions, they get > > next to no gratitude and a whole heap of criticism as if their drawing > > attention to the flaw is worse than the flaw itself. > > > > Free software doesn't stop people talking about the naked emperor. > > > > If they are not government spies and but just play at spies in their > > evenings (with other distractions) then that is fine, but if they then > make > > a public gift of it can they really expect people to not talk about it? > > > > They don't buy our silence with their wooden horse! > > > > We don't use it and we warn others. We actually care about their users! > > > > Sam > > On 28 Apr 2014 18:55, "Chris Kerr" <gingek...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I'm fed up of people complaining about developers. It's *free > software*, > > > and if you get anything more than you paid for then you should be > > > grateful (I certainly am). > > > > > > This is doubly so considering all the criticism that has gone the way > of > > > the OpenSSL people in the wake of Heartbleed. When someone gives their > > > best effort to produce software as a gift to the community, often > > > working in spare evenings with lots of other distractions which prevent > > > them giving their full focus to the task, they get next to no praise > > > when it works and a whole heap of criticism when they make a tiny > > > mistake. People even accuse them of deliberately inserting the mistake > > > as a government spy. > > > > > > I'm currently writing up my PhD thesis. When I finish, I will have some > > > free time while waiting for my viva voce, and would be willing to spend > > > some of that time trying to fix this, as it is something I would find > > > useful myself and potentially also a helpful addition to my CV. However > > > there are probably plenty of people out there who would do a better job > > > than I, especially since I have mainly used Fortran and Python for the > > > last 4 years so my C/C++ is rather rusty. > > > > > > -- > > > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the > bug > > > report. > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296867 > > > > > > Title: > > > empathy needs to support OTR encryption > > > > > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/296867/+subscriptions > > > > > > > -- > > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > > report. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296867 > > > > Title: > > empathy needs to support OTR encryption > > > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/296867/+subscriptions > > > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296867 > > Title: > empathy needs to support OTR encryption > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/296867/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296867 Title: empathy needs to support OTR encryption To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/296867/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
