[App_rpt-users] Lies, damn lies, and John David McGough

[Andrew Sylthe]

Yeah, fun and games, but you won't release the source, correct?

On Wed, Jul 3, 2019, 10:07 PM David McGough <kb4fxc at inttek.net> wrote:

>
>
> You forgot to mention that "secret spy" software included in the HamVoIP
> release is designed to dampen the Sun's double-oscillator, throwing it
> completely out of phase. With each new HamVoIP node deployed, the effect
> becomes more pronounced, ultimately causing a Maunder Sunspot Minimum.
> This, of course, is to the HamVoIP advantage, since no sunspots means even
> more hams will need AllStar for communications. Which, in turn, dampens
> the Sun even more.
>
> A movie is already in production. In this remake of the classic 1962
> thriller "Dr. No," SPECTRE is replaced SPARKY, AKA: John David McGough, as
> the Arch villain (running Arch Linux, of course). In a twist of the plot
> from the original movie, SKYNET is accidentally created by huge Raspberry
> Pi cluster, leading to world domination.
>
>
> ....LMAO....
>
>
> 73, David KB4FXC
>
>
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2019, Pierre Martel wrote:
>
> > My message to the people that want this to be done in private, I say. It
> is
> > already in private, Private communication between the people that have
> > business in a matter is exactly what we are doing. We are ALL parts of
> that
> > thing.
> >
> > Anyone that think they are not being affected by this is so wrong. The
> > other distro could be playing with how the registration is being done and
> > could be the responsible for the registration failling.. But since they
> > wont release the source of the code we cant say, and first thing we know,
> > the user thinks it is the coder here that are responsible.. Open source
> are
> > exactly for that.
> >
> > It can be a simple tactic to force the user base that use that distro
> into
> > moving to a new type of registration and splitting the community in
> half..
> > this would not even be far fetched.
> >
> > There is a saying in french that goes like this ( open translation sorry
> if
> > it is not ok) There is no better way to justify the killing your dog then
> > telling it has rabies. So making registration unreliable in there version
> > is about the best way to push a split by offering a "better" solution.
> > Again, there is no way to check this as they dont publish the source..
> >
> > It is not the first time in open source software that this happen, SDR#
> > used to be open source, but lots of people started publishing binaries
> with
> > dirty hacks and other gizmo that was making the software unstable. The
> main
> > programer got tired of this and closed back the source ( he always kept
> the
> > IP to himself , never released the source under GPL). And now, even if he
> > still works on his project and we still have the software, the day he
> > decide to stop producing it, we all loose... And if the source would be
> > available, maybe some new coder could build on what he done and we would
> > all gain from this.. But nope, some ass holes broke this for ALL of us.
> >
> > We are still lucky that many good programer are still maintening and
> > upgrading that software..
> >
> > But letting things go as they are right now will only lead to a pit fall.
> >
> > Like some meme photo we all see on social media, ITs because of that we
> > cant have nice things..
> >
> > Pierre
> > VE2PF
> >
> > P.s. Just in case it is not clear.. The other distro leader are the worst
> > thing that could happen to allstarlink.
> >
>
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