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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. 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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