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Linaro 30 day GPL'd software retention policy suspicious?

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Cola Zealot wrote:

 
>> Stellar Drive Engine
> ---------------------

> http://www.enemygadgets.com/stellar.html
> "Prize: has been raised to £300 (approximately $450)"


Thanks for the link troll, it was interesting :)

I notice one post about Linaro has brought down 11 troll posts.

Do I get any prizes for a troll kill ratio of 1:11?

Have you read the OP? Here it is again:



Linaro 30 day GPL'd software retention policy suspicious?
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Linaro distro maker that takes Ubuntu sources and creates
Linaro ARM hf distros is a good thing.

But a little unknown suspicious activity
is also taking place with their distro intermediate releases.

Those items have a 30 day retentions policy.

In all, a 30 day retention policy don't sound too bad, after all
why would anyone want old junk code that has been superceeded
with better bug fixed versions?

Wrong!

The newer versions are not being released which effectively
kills any kind of chance you would have had to download an old version
and fix its defects and continue to use the original distro
if new ones are not being released!!!!

So what do the Linaro management trolls want when they start
deleting old versions of distros after 30 days and not replace
it with anything? These days 4 TB disks are common - so it can't
be a question of space.

If they need community support, they need to retain their
older test build distros for a lot longer than 30 days.
Otherwise, there is no way for people to download their
stuff, particularly older stuff no one else is working on,
to get in the bug fixes and get it working on more platforms.

These intermediate release distros are a treasure because
they have latest fixes and more stuff that is working 
than any previous releases allowing more developers to port
it into more gadgets, test it and report back any further
problems that need fixing.

So Linaro developers need to rise up and see the damage
being done by management trolls futher up the company
that are undermining their important work by dictacting
open source unfriendly retention policy like 30 days
which reeks of idiocy.

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Linaro 30 day GPL'd software retention policy suspicious? 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2014-01-25 19:19 +0000
  Re:"7 tard's Stellar Drive Engine GPL'd policy suspicious? "Cola Zealot" <Cola_Zealot@fuckoff.com> - 2014-01-26 12:10 +0100
    Re: "7 tard's Stellar Drive Engine GPL'd policy suspicious? Richard M <Richard89172@iname.org> - 2014-01-26 09:06 -0500
      Re: "7 tard's Stellar Drive Engine GPL'd policy suspicious? "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2014-01-26 09:12 -0500
        Re: "7 tard's Stellar Drive Engine GPL'd policy suspicious? Richard M <Richard89172@iname.org> - 2014-01-26 09:24 -0500
          Re: "7 tard's Stellar Drive Engine GPL'd policy suspicious? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-01-26 15:42 +0100
            Re: "7 tard's Stellar Drive Engine GPL'd policy suspicious? Richard M <Richard89172@iname.org> - 2014-01-26 09:52 -0500
          Re: "7 tard's Stellar Drive Engine GPL'd policy suspicious? "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2014-01-26 09:56 -0500
            Re: "7 tard's Stellar Drive Engine GPL'd policy suspicious? Richard M <Richard89172@iname.org> - 2014-01-26 10:06 -0500
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                Re: "7 tard's Stellar Drive Engine GPL'd policy suspicious? Richard M <Richard89172@iname.org> - 2014-01-27 08:28 -0500
                Re: "7 tard's Stellar Drive Engine GPL'd policy suspicious? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-27 07:46 -0600
                Re: "7 tard's Stellar Drive Engine GPL'd policy suspicious? Richard M <Richard89172@iname.org> - 2014-01-27 08:56 -0500
                Re: "7 tard's Stellar Drive Engine GPL'd policy suspicious? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-27 08:08 -0600
                Re: "7 tard's Stellar Drive Engine GPL'd policy suspicious? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-01-27 15:14 +0100
                Re: "7 tard's Stellar Drive Engine GPL'd policy suspicious? Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2014-01-27 15:33 +0100
                Re: "7 tard's Stellar Drive Engine GPL'd policy suspicious? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-01-27 10:22 -0700
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                Re: "7 tard's Stellar Drive Engine GPL'd policy suspicious? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-01-27 15:02 +0100
                Re: "7 tard's Stellar Drive Engine GPL'd policy suspicious? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-01-27 14:51 +0100
                Re: "7 tard's Stellar Drive Engine GPL'd policy suspicious? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-01-27 14:49 +0100
        Re: "7 tard's Stellar Drive Engine GPL'd policy suspicious? "Cola Zealot" <Cola_Zealot@fuckoff.com> - 2014-01-26 15:48 +0100
          Re: "7 tard's Stellar Drive Engine GPL'd policy suspicious? Richard M <Richard89172@iname.org> - 2014-01-26 09:55 -0500
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