Re: Reply to Mr. Nikhil's Hyderabad team building easy to use operating system

[Raju Mathur <raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frankly I still do not see any justification for calling them
scumbags.  They decide to go their own way and produce something which
will probably help the community, and all the community can do in
return is abuse them?  Just because they wouldn't acknowledge messages
(however well-intentioned) from a bunch of egotists?

Reeks of childish petulance and fascism to me.  Harsh words, I agree,
but in this particular case I don't really feel like couching my
feelings in diplomatic terms.

Regards,

-- Raju

>>>>> "Suresh" == Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx> writes:

    Suresh> Raju Mathur rearranged electrons thusly:
    >> As far as I can see, they've committed the following cardinal
    >> sins: 1.  Gone ahead with their project without the local
    >> ILUG's support.
 
    Suresh> Try to put it this way :

    Suresh> 1. They apparently are a LUG called the BLUG (Bhagyanagar
    Suresh> Linux Users Group).  Excellent - we need more LUGs.
    Suresh> However, how good is it not to respond to queries about
    Suresh> their activities / requests for cooperation /
    Suresh> participation from other LUGs in the same city?

    >> 2.  Continued going ahead without consulting the concerned ILUG
    >> about the rights and wrongs of what they are doing.

    Suresh> s/"the concerned ilug"/"the community"/ - if a project is
    Suresh> GPL'd, as linux is, why shouldn't they be a bit more open
    Suresh> about exactly what they are developing?

    >> 3.  Not mention the ILUG or Linux-India on their web site.
 
    Suresh> not that the LUG or linux india cares or needs to care
    Suresh> about that

    >> 4.  Not respond to well-intentioned e-mails from ILUG members.

    Suresh> this is the main problem.  if they refuse constructive
    Suresh> feedback (which it was, initially) from the community
    Suresh> about their gpl'd, open source product, it sounds
    Suresh> extremely weird.

    >> 6.  Start work on creating a product which everyone keeps
    >> talking about but no one does anything about.
 
    Suresh> they announced this project over a year ago.  almost the
    Suresh> same press release this time as well.  I'd think a distro
    Suresh> would take far less time than that, if there's such a
    Suresh> dedicated team at work on it.  [at least a beta should
    Suresh> have been out ...].

    Suresh> So, the questions remain, "does said distro exist?  what
    Suresh> makes it distinctive and gives it its character as a
    Suresh> distro?"

    Suresh> 	-s
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Raju Mathur          raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxx           http://kandalaya.org/