Re: [lp-br-sp] Sobre FREE software

[Joao S. O. Bueno]

On 1 April 2013 10:27, Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho <address@hidden> wrote:
> Me parece pegadinha de 1 de abril. Olha o link.

Hah - cai direitinho.

tava até elaborando uns comentarios aqui na minha cabeça já,
pra nao deixar a bola cair - algo na linha "a vida é assim,
mas quando alguns se cansam outros tem que continuar
no caminho', etc... :-p

  js
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> 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
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