Loxdev gets serious. Lots of honest thought put into this.

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/15196-my-response-to-cronosproject-folks/#entry130719


I mean it.  Loxdev really worked hard on that post.  Like watching a major political figure assuring the public of his innocence.  Loxdev is telling the truth here pretty much.  I like what he wrote.  mostly.


I have issues with statements like "Anyway that is the law, not me."  Yes the GPL is a legally binding agreement.  There are people who are trained to handle these situations.  You are NOT them.  It is NOT your problem.  You are NOT the court.  You are someone who is TAKING someone else to court over what is probably a matter of one person not conforming to a license agreement.  You are NOT there to ruin that person's life.  You are simply there to ensure that justice is found and the other person makes good on the license agreement.


too bad loxdev has zero damned clue that his original post on cronosproject was inflammatory.  The point I keep making is that yes, he was right  about the GPL.  BUT he handled it wrong.  It shoulda gone down privately.


Here is a email that was reprinted by JELL on cyanogenmod forum for them to see.


FOR ALL TO SEE I will paste it here:

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Subject: cronosproject - "Cronos Scheduler and Governor are both Closed
 source" but still based on linux kernel...
From: Piotr Skamruk <piotr.skamruk@gmail.com>
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please, read one post on some forum:
http://www.cronosproject.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=620&p=26022#p26022

i know that this is small case, but probably resolvable in single mail
from You to Feeyo - main person behind cronosproject

Too bad that cronosproject.org forum is down thanks to the GPL team forcing it closed.  I wanna read that post.  I know u do too.

But the part I underlined in bold italics is what counts.

The suggestion WAS to email feeyo directly and the point WAS that it was a "small case".  Who took that suggestion and made it into a public outcry of illegal activity?

OK so loxdev has no manners.  sad but not un... common.  so some of the people on cyanogenmod say racist, homophobic and entirely demeaning personal insults.  They still are important people who bring us good roms and have fought the system to do so.

Just try to have some f-ing class u fools.