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From: Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>
To: Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ANN] [OT] New Android app (Orgzly)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 09:53:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2mw59anef.fsf@krugs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54C1CA5F.6060209@gmail.com> (Scott Randby's message of "Thu, 22 Jan 2015 23:13:19 -0500")

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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.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> Scott Randby
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-23  8:53 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 [this message]
2015-01-23 13:31         ` Scott Randby
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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