bonzini

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by bonzini 14y ago
> on-and-off love affair for MS "standards" That's just Miguel de Icaza, not really GNOME. If rms wanted to diss GNOME, he certainly would have had...
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by bonzini 14y ago
Just as an example of extending sed, I introduced "sed -i". Yes, it doesn't require much maintenance, but sometimes you can be surprised. I started maintaining GNU grep 3 years ago because it was in a really sorry state. Some parts were a
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by bonzini 14y ago
Choosing a subset of users to satisfy will not protect the freedom of users as a whole. Choosing to protect the freedom of users as a whole will dissatisfy developers who would like to have a different set of freedoms.
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by bonzini 14y ago
It's secretive because "GNU is not about openness". I personally believe it's okay to have a "cabalistic" mailing list, the problems are: 1) that the open mailing lists (bug-standards, gnu-system-discuss) are basically unused; 2) that rms i
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by bonzini 14y ago
That was not a technical argument (slow, etc.) It's about the structure of the project.
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GNU sed 4.2.2 released, maintainer resigns(article.gmane.org)
399 points by bonzini 14y ago|122 comments
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by bonzini 15y ago
If anything, OpenStack is more of a competitor to oVirt, though there are significant differences between the two.
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by bonzini 15y ago
Not sure why it's needed, too. It could also restrict the rw/ro toggle to the init_rickroll and exit_rickroll functions.
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by bonzini 15y ago
> this is beginning to sound like you are deliberately trying to place doubt over the legality of our work Oh come on. Again: if anyone has placed doubt on it, it's whoever chose CDDL because it was GPL-incompatible. All I'm saying is
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by bonzini 15y ago
You do not get to choose whether it matters that the hooks (such as context ops) were preexisting. Perhaps it does, perhaps it doesn't. But it's the same trying to define what is a derived work, and neither you nor the KVM copyright holde
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by bonzini 15y ago
> You can write GPL'ed device drivers for Windows - doesn't make Windows GPL. The public interface exposed to Windows drivers is _much_ more shallow than the public interface exposed to Linux and Solaris/Illumos modules. Not coincident