Martin Schulze Steps Down As SPI Vice President

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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"If I don't get my candy...

[MoThugz]

then I won't go to school!"... are words that you can hear come out of a 3-5 year old. Basically, they are threatening you to oblige to their demands or they won't do something that is required of them.

As you can actually see, school is an important part of mental development for the child. In the context of this post, Mr. Schulze is the child and SPI is the school.

Just because he didn't get his candy, he is threatening to quit SPI? And pray, tell me, what possible good can this achieve? Even the purpose of SPI is unclear (No news for the whole year?).

And what is the role of free software? Just simply to reduce (possibly halt) Microsoft's domination? Only MS? Why not Apple, they too produces propietry OS? Or Macromedia for their overpriced web graphics tools?

Am I the only one to see that neither of these bodies actually serve any useful purposes other than (sigh) more propaganda for the Open Source community? Even in this area, they suck like hell! Somehow I fear for the longevity of the projects under the co-ordination of SPI.

So Mr. Shulze, basically you're just acting selfish. You have access to the minds and opinions of the SPI people and yet you decide to just quit them altogether. Thanks for helping out to futher dysfunctionalize the SPI.

Mod me as you will... it's only karma.