On 06/10/2008 20:01, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
Well, I consider it a courtesy to the msysGit people to leave it where
it is.
Umm. I consider it to be UNACCEPTABLY STUPID to claim "courtesy" if it
actually makes something just more irritating to users.
I absolutely detest clicking through EULA's or other self-serving crap.
I hate software that bothers me with their license details. Nobody reads
those things anyway, and an extra click or an extra window I didn't ask
for - _especially_ in open source software - is just a bug.
Bugs aren't "courtesy". Not to the user, and certainly not to the
developer.
It is not a bug. It is a message that tells the Windows user that this is
GPLed software, and that they are free to copy it. Windows users (and
developers on Windows are more of users than developers) are often not
aware of that fact.
Well, maybe so called "Windows pseudo-developers" do not feel welcome to
participate to this particular project? Or maybe this project has not
reached yet the minimum visibility threshold? git has a lot of
contributors on Linux because it is visible there. Do you think all
users of git on Linux systematically contributes?
Don't get me wrong, I am truly thankful for msysgit but, IMHO, if you
produce and publish a free software you should just accept and be glad
that it is used. Otherwise, just don't publish it.
That is the reason why many Open Source projects do not bother on Linux,
but do bother on Windows.
And a lot other projects do not bother with this even on Windows and Mac
too.
Regards,
Abdel.
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