Re: [Savannah-hackers] Download area/hosting on freesoftware.fsf.org

[mathieu]

> He then complained that Bernhard Rosenkränzer (who runs this project
> on savannah) never even tried to help him improve cdrecord or talked
> to him before creating this fork, which (in his eyes) showed lack of
> manners and was unethical.

Is it unethical to use the freedom that Free Software brought to anyone 
?

Sure, it's nice to contact people, it's probably more efficient to work 
together...

But, talking about « lack of manners », « unethical »... uh.

> But if one person misunderstood this, others may do so, as well. Jörg
> told me that he clearly felt this was a FSF project since it was a)
> under the fsf.org domain and b) the author was using a @gnu.org email
> address.

If anyone take a look at the page you mention, he will see no mention 
of @gnu.org email but a @redhat.com


> So how many others may jump to similar (false) conclusions and how
> many of them will not contact us to allow us to clear such
> misconceptions up?

Must the FSF take so much care about people that don't care ?

> Which (to me) means we should try to prevent such misunderstandings in
> the future. Maybe it would be better to find some alternative TLD to
> host this? Is there anything else we could do?

IMHO, for a developper, being unable to understand that savannah is a 
host means that :
- he's dumb - he doesn't want to read more than 3 words before starting 
to flame

No hope here :(


Please, note that I'm not member of the FSF or anything else, so 
there's no need to write to the FSF for complaining about MY words.


--
mathieu

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