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Re: [lp-br-sp] Sobre FREE software
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Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho |
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Re: [lp-br-sp] Sobre FREE software |
Date: |
Mon, 1 Apr 2013 10:27:18 -0300 |
Me parece pegadinha de 1 de abril. Olha o link.
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Raniere Silva <address@hidden> wrote:
> Olá,
>
> parece que um dos desenvolvedores do GNU Octave está abandonando o barco.
>
> Eu achei que o terceiro parágrafo do email dele seria um bom começo para o
> LibreBar dessa semana (o email completo segue abaixo).
>
> Raniere
>
> ----- Forwarded message from "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> -----
>
> Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 03:00:14 -0400
> From: "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
> To: octave maintainers mailing list <address@hidden>, octave help mailing
> list <address@hidden>
> Subject: I'm no longer working on Octave
> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.2.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
>
> I've made my last change to Octave. Unfortunately, it's not the great
> change I was hoping it would be -- you know, the kind of change that
> would get me inducted into the Hacker Hall of Fame. Instead, it's
> just a stupid little change, and I did it in kind of a crummy way. I
> reversed the terminal colors in the new GUI so that the text is black
> and the background is white on Windows systems. I know, fantastic new
> feature, right?
>
> I hate to leave things like that, but after pouring my heart and soul
> into the project for more than 21 years, I've had all I can take. As
> I was checking in that last change it really struck me how pointless
> it all is. I mean, who really cares what the terminal window colors
> are? And why am I wasting what precious little time I have here on
> Earth changing them around? It all really began to feel unimaginably
> silly. And then I suddenly came to the complete and utter realization
> that I truly have no more patience for another bug report about how
> "sin(pi) is not exactly zero", or some other armchair quarterback over
> in the peanut gallery calling me and other hard working Octave
> developers names like "kindergartners" because we sometimes make
> mistakes. All I can say is, "is anyone perfect?"
>
> As far as I can tell, all anyone really wants from the Octave project
> is an exact clone of Matlab with a price tag of zero. We've tried for
> more than 20 years to explain the importance of software freedom, but
> no matter what we do or say, people are still squarely focused on
> Octave's missing features and the relative pricing structures. It's
> crystal clear to me now that freedom doesn't matter one iota, and a
> price of $0 is not low enough if there is even ONE bug or missing
> feature. So I say screw it, this whole software freedom thing is just
> an aging hippy fantasy anyway. I honestly do not know what those
> people are smoking.
>
> For those of you who will, no doubt, continue to work on Octave
> anyway, there's probably nothing I can do to dissuade you from your
> folly. So I suppose I might as well wish you the best of luck. But I
> beg of you, please don't contact me asking for help. I really want to
> put this 20+ year long nightmare behind me as quickly as possible. To
> that end, I've written up some quick notes about what I'm thinking of
> doing next. If you are at all interested, you can read them here:
>
> http://jweaton.org/future-plans--is-there-any-other-kind.html