Re: Fwd: reiser4 non-free?

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Thanks much.  This helps after getting a 1.8 million dollar ARDA Reiser6 
proposal rejected because the reviewers thought that the GPL was some 
sort of proprietary license.  (Really they did.  They also thought there 
was no realistic chance of anyone using anything other than Windows in 
the government, but the proprosal using this proprietary GPL license was 
the main killer for 8 of the 9 reviewers, at least one of whom seemed to 
think that it would make the project unlikely to get anywhere in the 
Linux community....  )  I spent weeks on that proposal....

Michael Milverton wrote:

>On Sat, 1 May 2004 12:56 am, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>Michael, you are much more eloquent than I am.  Thanks for understanding.
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>>Hans
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>No worries Hans, understanding, appreciation and acknowledgement are the 
>underlying currency of free software. I think that this is often lost in 
>these sorts of debates and I believe that if the concerns that you have were 
>acknowledged and addressed then it would be easier to work through the 
>technical issues that people have with them.
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>I have been a little bit alarmed over the last month or so at some of the 
>barbed comments that people have made in critisising your vision and the 
>effort that you have made to create quite a revolutionary filesystem. I find 
>it alarming because negative input really makes a large withdrawl from the 
>only bank account that free software has, eg the good human interactions and 
>the pleasure associated with developing free software, the emotional bank 
>account as Steven Covey puts it. I also see the same issue with this credits 
>and naming issue, it is withdrawing from this bank account because the 
>underlying concerns are not always being heard and understood properly. 
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>At the end of the day I don't want to see this emotional bank account become 
>overdrawn to the point where the negatives of releasing this software outway 
>the benefits gained and this is what makes me alarmed and so I feel that 
>something must be said.
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>Therefore to make a deposit into this emotional bank account I would like to 
>state that I really appreciate the vision and dedication that you and those 
>that work with you have shown in bringing the reiser filesystems into the 
>Free Software and I believe that many others feel the same, they just need to 
>say it more often so we can balance the bank account :).
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>Thankyou
>Michael Milverton
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