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Martin Schulze Steps Down As SPI Vice President

Posted by timothy on from the dissension dept.

Tina Gasperson reports on NewsForge that Martin Schulze, Vice President of Software in the Public Interest, is resigning his position there to protest the lack of time he says fellow SPI higher-ups are devoting to the organization. Since SPI serves as a coordinating body for several large-scale Free software projects (like GNOME and OpenOffice.org), discord there should concern a lot of people. Update: 11/26 03:14 GMT by T : That should read "OpenSource.org," not "OpenOffice.org." Sorry.

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  1. Not to be a troll but ... by emkman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seriously, he is resigning because he thinks others aren't putting enough time in. One could assume that he was most likely putting a good amount of time in. Now he is resigning, accomplishling what? Even less time being put in.
    I understand what he is trying to do, but maybe its not the best of going about it, good luck to him though.

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  2. Thanks for the golden shower, troll. by twitter · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I swear the open source community is often it's own worse enemy.

    Nah, no one wants free software to go away except vendors of crappy closed source software. Free and Open software folks can have their differences but the commonality is much greater.

    Since (almost) noone is making money doing it, the primary form of compensation is ego gratification.

    What a crock, lots of people are making a good living with free software. Even pioneers such as RMS got by. Now that free software is universally recognized as superior to other software, there is a much larger demand. Show me someone who does not get some ego gratification from their job and I'll show you someone who should be doing something else.

    If someone doesn't get their way, they throw a temper tantrum and go off on their own.

    This is unique to free software? -Bangs his fist and insults a federal judge- Have you ever seen the monkeyboy dance? If your eyes don't convince you, just read this article. I would never ever want to work at a place like that. It looks like they treat each other worse than they treat the rest of the world.

    The end result is forked code trees, huge amounts of duplicated effort, and projects that never go anywhere.

    Said another way, free software could never make a working operating system, an easy to use GUI, it's chaos, blah, blah, bull shit on a stick This message posted with Mozilla and Windowmaker on X11 under Debian, software so superior to comercial junk I can never ever go back.

    SPI will survive this little tussle and free softare will survive SPI.

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  3. Agreed. by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 4, Interesting
    If you're going to diss Joey, you'll get a big F**K You from me, too. The other folks involved aren't devils, they're just too busy and it's time for them to let go. I also work for SPI and have some idea what's going on there... which is not much.

    Bruce

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