Let's all work out how to make a working, stable, legal distribution that can't be crippled by retracting license terms later. As for the politics... ignore the loonies. They have an imaginary enemy and most people just want a working OS <blockquote type="cite">On Jun 10, 2010 1:51 PM, "Martin Owens" <<a href="mailto:doctormo@gmail.com">doctormo@gmail.com</a>> wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 18:32, David Schlesinger <<a href="mailto:lefty@access-company.com">lefty@access-company.com</a>> wrote: > I disagree: these "politics" are part of "free software", not "open > source software". There's no...These politics weren't striped out of the OSI they were transformed and re-communicated as practical and level headed thinking. Just because someone is talking about freedom doesn't mean their a raving loon who toes the FSF party line, they might just be concerned for their own practical application of technology. No need to jump down their throat about it David. On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 13:18 -0400, Dan Trevino wrote: > I find it interesting that every time someo...+1, I see far too much uninformed backlash. At least Scott K was right with the assertion that these blobs are bugs to be fixed not ghosts to be exorcised (as the FSF may have you do) but no need to go wild with 'politics is bad' memes. Martin, -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or uns...</blockquote>