Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Re: The QEMU Accelerator Module

["René Korthaus" <wlannews@cordney.com>]

Am 12.02.2005 um 17:19 schrieb Natalia Portillo:

> Hi,
>
> I think that this whole discussion has gone to a completely stupid 
> fashion.
>
> Fabrice is a great programmer and QEMU is a VERY great project.
>
> KQEMU is a great idea that speed up things a lot.
>
> Just think if KQEMU is released in BSD or LPGL license like rest of 
> qemu...
>
> They are right now a lot of "super emulators" being sold (like 
> iEmulator) that use QEMU (and like the named one, without crediting 
> it)

This comparison lacks a bit of knowledge about the license that QemuX 
is published with. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/.

>  and nor Fabrice nor other QEMU collaborators see money from that, 
> like the WinZip program that is nothing but a commercial GUI for the 
> Info-ZIP compression library.

I don't see any money from that, too. Of course if if ever get 
donations I will pass something to Fabrice, but my software is far away 
from being worth a donation ;-). Fabrice could at least stop this 
iEmulator thing by telling them to follow GPL/LGPL and publishing 
sources for their qemu version.

>
> Just imagine what will happen if someone takes KQEMU makes a dirty GUI 
> and sells it. Just like the VMWare cost... Image how much could 
> someone get from KQEMU just investing 5 minutes in a RAD enviroment, 
> selling it and leaving Fabrice with NOTHING.

I must agree to Jean-Christian on that point, a GUI is not programmed 
in 5 minutes and all that qemu can earn for a GUI is publicity.

>
> I think that the current Fabrice's movement is the correct one and I 
> hope that a company will sponsor not only the KQEMU but the whole QEMU 
> project as is the BEST and MOST COMPLETE non-old computer emulator, 
> and also, its fast, and it's worth it.
>
> There are a lot of companies interested in open source projects, like 
> Novell, IBM, Apple, did anyone tried to contact them?
>
> Regards,
> Natalia Portillo
>
> P.S.: Anand I think that your action of complaining Savannah could 
> "hurt" (sorry I don't know the exact word) Fabrice and is based on 
> another person's words, and is more a child's action than one from an 
> adult. You should just have let Fabrice to see that he was breaking 
> Savannah's rules.
> P.S.2: Fabrice if you need a CVS server I offer my modest server.
>
> These are my 2 eurocents ;)
>
> El 12/02/2005, a las 6:14, Anand Kumria escribió:
>
>> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 03:01:53 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Anand Kumria wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is it really fair to distribute a proprietary module from a free
>>>> software source code repository?
>>>
>>> Is it really fair to expect others to work for nothing at all?
>>>
>>
>> Are you actually this stupid?
>>
>> Or is it that English isn't you native language and you've missed the
>> subtle point that qemu is breaking the rules of savannah by 
>> distributing a
>> binary module?
>>
>> I was trying to be polite and subtle about it so that Fabrice could
>> consider his options and make a considered cautious move.
>>
>> Anyway, because of your response, I've complained to the savannah
>> administrators.
>>
>> No thanks to you.
>>
>> Anand
>>
>>
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