From: Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ANN] [OT] New Android app (Orgzly)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:31:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKi3u=Y_28y+jgUd=BHx8X3OqtDuBRqcRQeNaOXSzQrLhmAsWQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2mw59anef.fsf@krugs.de>
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:53 AM, Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> wrote:
> Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 01/22/2015 05:02 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>>
>>> Now the question is: what is the most appropriate place to *inform*
>>> about his project. If not the Org-mode discussion list, I really don't
>>> know. (I assume that nobody denies his *right* to license his work
>>> according to his wishes, of course, for if not, another explanation
>>> would be that this project doesn't have any right to *exist* in the
>>> first place.)
>>
>> Since we cannot view the code of this software, then we have no way of
>> determining before we use it if it has any purpose other than its
>> stated purpose. For all we know, it contains some nasty code that
>> takes over your system and deletes all of your files or worse.
>>
>> To trust this software because the developer seems to have good
>> intentions is foolish. When I saw the announcement, I interpreted it
>> as saying this: "Gee, here is some neat software I wrote. You can't
>> see the code, but trust me, I'm good. I'll open up part of the code
>> maybe sometime, but for now you can try it out for free. I'm not going
>> to cut you off later and make you pay to continue using this wonderful
>> thing. And no, it doesn't do anything bad like steal information or
>> trash systems. Trust me." No thanks, I say. Promote this somewhere
>> else.
>
> I just want to state here that not everybody feels the same as you.
I wasn't expecting that everybody would feel the way I feel about the
matter. It is clear from the discussion that some feel fine with this
software because it is alleged to do something desireable. I don't
feel fine with it because it is closed, and I have the same distrust
of the other pieces of proprietary software that have been promoted on
this list through the years.
Scott
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rainer
>
>>
>> Scott Randby
>>
>>
>
> --
> Rainer M. Krug
> email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-23 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-22 11:33 [ANN] [OT] New Android app (Orgzly) Neven
2015-01-22 15:58 ` Xebar Saram
2015-01-22 16:02 ` Rasmus
2015-01-22 20:00 ` Neven
2015-01-22 21:05 ` Melleus
2015-01-22 21:20 ` Neven
2015-01-23 8:47 ` e.fraga
2015-01-22 16:41 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2015-01-22 16:57 ` Scott Randby
2015-01-22 22:02 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-22 22:46 ` Rasmus
2015-01-24 0:05 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-23 4:13 ` Scott Randby
2015-01-23 8:53 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-01-23 13:31 ` Scott Randby [this message]
2015-01-23 23:57 ` John Hendy
2015-01-23 19:18 ` Greg Troxel
2015-01-23 19:21 ` Greg Troxel
2015-01-23 23:57 ` Discussion of non-free-as-defined-by-FSF software (was: [ANN] [OT] New Android app (Orgzly)) Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-23 9:56 ` [ANN] [OT] New Android app (Orgzly) Karl Voit
2015-01-24 0:10 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-22 21:23 ` Subhan Michael Tindall
2015-01-23 2:59 ` Mike McLean
2015-01-24 0:15 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-23 4:34 ` Samuel Wales
2016-10-20 19:28 ` Thomas Koch
2016-10-22 2:46 ` Stefan Huchler
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